Douglas MacArthur Soldier Quotations

By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father

Old Soldiers Never Die (Farewell Address to Congress),

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?

The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

And like the old soldier in that 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 sight to see that duty.