There’s no security on this earth, only opportunity.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction

No army has ever done so much with so little

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

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory

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

I realize that advice is worth what it costs — that is, nothing.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil...

Old Soldiers Never Die (Farewell Address to Congress),

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.

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of...

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it...