207 Quotes by Douglas MacArthur

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

In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to achieve increasing production. Representing over a half of Japan's total population, the agriculture workers have become an invincible barrier against the advance of socialistic ideas which would relegate all to the indignity of state servitude.

I came through and I shall return.

The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense.

The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.

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

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.