3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur 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.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur 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.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur 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.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur 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.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur 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.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur Like the old soldier of the 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 light to see that duty. Goodbye.
