Douglas MacArthur Quotes

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

I would have won the war in Korea in a maximum of ten days, once the campaign was under way, and with considerably fewer casualties than were suffered during the so-called truce period. It would have altered the course of history… I would have dropped between thirty and fifty tactical atomic bombs on his air […]

Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.

Upon the fields of friendly strife Are sown the seeds That upon other fields, on other days Will bear the fruits of victory. (Words which hang over the portals of the gymnasium of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point and which he wrote while he was serving as Superintendent, 1919-1922)

A commander’s most important function is to separate the five percent of intelligence he receives which is important from the 95 percent which is not important.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms industry which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

Security lies in our ability to produce.