Quotes

“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” Douglas MacArthur

“I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.” Douglas MacArthur

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

“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.” Douglas MacArthur

“You are remembered for the rules you break.” Douglas MacArthur

“Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.” Douglas MacArthur

“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” Douglas MacArthur

“In war there is no substitute for victory.” Douglas MacArthur

“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 will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?” Douglas MacArthur

“There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.” Douglas MacArthur

“The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.” Douglas MacArthur

“Americans never quit.” Douglas MacArthur

“Life is a lively process of becoming.” Douglas MacArthur

“In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.” Douglas MacArthur

“Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.” Douglas MacArthur

“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.” Douglas MacArthur

“I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!” Douglas MacArthur

“Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.” Douglas MacArthur

“My first recollection is that of a bugle call.” Douglas MacArthur

“Never give an order that can't be obeyed.” Douglas MacArthur

“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.” Douglas MacArthur

“I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.” Douglas MacArthur

“There is no substitute for victory.” Douglas MacArthur

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” Steve Martin

“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.” Steve Martin

“Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.” Steve Martin

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.” Steve Martin

“Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!” Steve Martin

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” Steve Martin

“The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.” Steve Martin