207 Quotes by Douglas MacArthur

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.

Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.