Douglas MacArthur

You are remembered for the rules you break.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

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

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

It’s been a big week for our side. Over on the beaches of Normandy our boys have fired the opening guns of the long awaited drive to liberate the world.

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

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.

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

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.

A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty… break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

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

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

No one ever wins a war.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

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.