207 Quotes by Douglas MacArthur

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Global war has become Frankenstein’s monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.

Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on.

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?

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.

War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.