Douglas MacArthur

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.

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.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction

The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!

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.

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

Wars are necessary to teach us lessons we seem unable to learn any other way.

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

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don’t want it; we won

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

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.

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

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.

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

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.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

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

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.

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.