A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Douglas MacArthurThere is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
Douglas MacArthurThis does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Douglas MacArthur