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

— Douglas MacArthur

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.

— Douglas MacArthur

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

— Douglas MacArthur

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber so long as it receives messages of beauty hope cheer and courage so long are you young.

— Douglas MacArthur

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

— Douglas MacArthur

I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.

— Douglas MacArthur

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

— Douglas MacArthur

It is fatal to enter a war without the will to win it.

— Douglas MacArthur

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.

— Douglas MacArthur

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