Douglas MacArthur

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

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction

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

Americans never quit.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

[John McCain is]… not a war hero. He’s a war hero – he’s a war hero ’cause he was captured. I Like people that weren’t captured, OK, I hate to tell you.

The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.

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.

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

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!

No one ever wins a war.

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.

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.

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.