Douglas MacArthur

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

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

Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.

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.

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

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

That’s what an army is – a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

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

I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

War is not a matter for the professional pacifist or militarist. It is for the unprofessional people. They finance and fight it, they bear its losses. Therefore, they should have the deciding voice concerning it. To do this, they require all the information upon which decisions are made. They should know in a difference, whether it is soluble by rational intelligence, or inevitable by force. Not once in a thousand instances would our people (this may not be true of all peoples, however) approve an offensive war. Never would they be lax in defensive action. For this is their country. However, most of their enemies are within it.

People didn’t want war. We were forced in it. How fast we finish it depends on how free a hand our generals and admirals have. The less interference they get from the politicians the quicker they’ll end it.

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

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

You don’t win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a b*tch die for his.