Life is a lively process of becoming.

— Douglas MacArthur

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

— Douglas MacArthur

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

— Douglas MacArthur

Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

— Douglas MacArthur

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

— Douglas MacArthur

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

— Douglas MacArthur

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

— Douglas MacArthur

There is no substitute for victory.

— Douglas MacArthur

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

— Douglas MacArthur

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

— Douglas MacArthur