Douglas MacArthur Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!

  Douglas MacArthur

  Enemy, Get Away, Behinds

• Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Enemy

• People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples. We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Blood, Two, People

  Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Douglas MacArthur (1966). “Reports of General MacArthur: suppl. MacArthur in Japan: the occupation, military phase”

• Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Dust, Worry, Doubt

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

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Enemy, Former

• No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Enemy, Encounters, Firsts

• I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Color, Enemy

  Douglas MacArthur's address to Colonel George M. Jones and the 503rd Regimental Combat Team who recaptured Corregidor (March 2, 1945) as quoted in "Bureau of Navigation News Bulletin", 1945.

• While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Men, Political

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

• It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to "resist aggression" is to destroy the potentialities of the aggressor to continually hit you...When you say, merely, "we are going to continue to fight aggression," that is not what the enemy is fighting for. The enemy is fighting for a very definite purpose-to destroy our forces.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Fighting, Enemy

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