Douglas MacArthur

"There is nothing worse for a soldier than to think he is fighting a war without meaning."

"The future is not merely something that happens to us. It is something we create through our choices and our will."

"Gentlemen, I have just returned from visiting the sick and wounded soldiers. They deserve better than words; they deserve our action."

"A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it may be tomorrow."

"In conflict, the supreme art is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"The officers of this army deserve to be remembered not for their victories, but for their steadfast character."

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"The greatest measure of a man is not how he handles himself in moments of comfort and convenience, but how he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"Whoever stands with me will find his place in the annals of glory."

"There can be no compromise with evil. There can be no understanding with those who deal in falsehood."

"The security of the world rests in the hands of thinking men and women."

"I see America not in the setting sun of a defeated past, but in the glowing promise of a grand future."

"A president must never ask a soldier to do something he would not do himself."

"The very foundation of our republic is built upon the sacrifice of patriots who asked not what their country could do for them."

"There is nothing which prevents a man from rising to greatness save his own unwillingness to pay the price."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"The problem with our age is not that we lack dreamers, but that we lack the courage to pursue our dreams."

"I am a soldier, and I understand that at any moment, that might be my last."

"The testimony of history is clear: those who forget the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat them."

"A true professional is someone who can do his duty even when he no longer believes in it."

"There is nothing that strengthens a nation more than the knowledge that its citizens are united in common purpose."

"The greatest nations are not built on the weakness of their enemies, but on the strength of their convictions."

"I have learned in this life that we are never too old to learn, never too proud to listen, and never too strong to need others."

"The true cost of war is measured not in dollars but in the hearts and souls of those who fight it."

"A man of action is worth a thousand theorists."

"In the final analysis, it is not the amount of blood we shed, but the fervor of our spirit that determines the outcome."

"The world will little note what we say, but it will long remember what we do."

"To withdraw from the world is to diminish ourselves. To engage with it fully is to truly live."

"The hallmark of a great leader is not that he never fails, but that he rises again each time he falls."

"I have faith in the American soldier because I have seen what he can accomplish when he believes in his mission."