Douglas MacArthur Quotes

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

In the Marine Corps, you meet this really broad segment of the country; you're working with people from all kinds of backgrounds. And it exposes you to the American military, particularly the American military at war.

As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

Nothing makes a career like a war.

Any athletic coach or manager who tells players that their game is like being in a war, has never been in a war. War is a dirty business and should never be compared to sports. It is an insult to those who have fought in a war. .

Men go to war for fear, honor or interest.

No sir, anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddamn fool and the guy who got him there was a liar.

For a soldier I enlisted, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day.

I've learned our soldiers are so much like everybody else. They're just put into an extreme situation.

These guys that were standing up to fight, for the most part, had pride in their country, and they wanted to do the best, and they wanted to go out and fight, and I was as close to these Afghans as I was to the Marines.

You know, I had gone to war.

A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.

The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.