Douglas MacArthur

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

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. ”

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other. ”

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. ”

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. ”