Douglas MacArthur

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

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

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!

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.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

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.

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

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

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

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction

I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.