More - Douglas MacArthur Quotes

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Douglas MacArthur

 American Soldier

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Douglas MacArthur

 American Soldier Country

People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. 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. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.

Douglas MacArthur

 Age And Aging

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

Douglas MacArthur

 Distinguished

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur

 Age And Aging American Soldier

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

 American Soldier Country

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

 American Soldier Present

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Douglas MacArthur

 American Soldier Faith

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?

Douglas MacArthur

 American Soldier Life

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur

 Age And Aging American Soldier