Douglas MacArthur Quotes

Life is a lively process of becoming.
Douglas MacArthur

Life, Process, Becoming

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
Douglas MacArthur

Life, Time, Done

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
Douglas MacArthur

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
Douglas MacArthur

Fighting, Front, Marines

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
Douglas MacArthur

Live, Die, Afraid

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
Douglas MacArthur

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Douglas MacArthur

Give, Order, Obeyed

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthur

History, Peace, War

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
Douglas MacArthur

Time, Death, Old

There is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur

Victory, Substitute

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacArthur

God, Career, Him

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Douglas MacArthur

Power, Home, Evil

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: January 26, 1880

Died: April 5, 1964

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