207 Quotes by Douglas MacArthur

"Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

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.

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?

There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan...

The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.