Douglas MacArthur Enemy Quotations

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...

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

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

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!

No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

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

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