Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

- Douglas Macarthur

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

- Douglas Macarthur

Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their …

- Douglas Macarthur

Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.

- Douglas Macarthur

Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces …

- Douglas Macarthur

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

- Douglas Macarthur

History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has bee…

- Douglas Macarthur

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

- Douglas Macarthur

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

- Douglas Macarthur