Douglas MacArthur

"Age wrinkles the skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."

"Strive always to be the best, but never believe that you are."

"We are not retreating; we are advancing in another direction."

"A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough."

"The great tradition of parliamentary institutions and representative government must continue to flourish."

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes."

"Man is still bound by the chains of his own nature."

"Public office is a public trust."

"The soldier's primary weapon is not his gun or sword, but his character."

"I have always held that one man's ceiling is another man's floor."

"The road that leads upward and the road that leads downward are one and the same."

"A nation is only as strong as its weakest citizen."

"The test of leadership is not going along with everybody's ideas of popularity."

"Through all the fog of war, the soldier must maintain his moral compass."

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

"The industrialization of war has made all history's great battlefields look like playgrounds."

"A leader's job is to remove obstacles and let people do their best work."

"Memory is an ancient and honorable quality."

"The old soldier never dies; he merely fades away."

"To be a great man, one must learn to be small."

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue in this war."

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

"In this modern world, to be unprepared is to be unsuccessful."

"The great problems of life cannot be solved by the same thinking that created them."

"A soldier's first duty is not to self but to country."

"Potential means nothing without execution."

"The greatest danger is to remain dormant while the world turns."

"One's own work is the only path to authenticity."

"Theater of war cannot substitute for the theater of hearts and minds."

"The historian's task is to explain why things happened as they did."