Douglas MacArthur

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

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

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.

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.

Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

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

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.

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

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.

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

When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!