Douglas MacArthur

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

I realize that advice is worth what it costs – that is, nothing.

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

Americans never quit.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction

I Shall Return!

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.

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

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction