Douglas MacArthur

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

I Shall Return!

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 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.

You know, it sounds like I’m bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, there’s not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I’m not saying that’s bad.

I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.