Douglas MacArthur

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.

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

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.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

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

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

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.

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.

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

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

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction

In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.

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.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

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.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.