207 Quotes by Douglas MacArthur

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

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

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.