“The Japanese people since the war have undergone the greatest reformation recorded in modern history. With a commendable will, eagerness to learn, and marked capacity to understand, they have from the ashes left in war’s wake erected in Japan an edifice dedicated to the supremacy of individual liberty and personal dignity, and in the ensuing process there has been created a truly representative government committed to the advance of political morality, freedom of economic enterprise, and social justice.” ~ Douglas MacArthur, 26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964

“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, 26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964

“Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.” ~ Douglas MacArthur, 26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.” ~ Douglas MacArthur, 26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964

“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” ~ Douglas MacArthur, 26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964

“Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.” ~ Douglas MacArthur, 26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964

“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” ~ Douglas MacArthur, 26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964

“There is no substitute for victory.” ~ Douglas MacArthur, 26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964

“Americans never quit.” ~ Douglas MacArthur, 26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964