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* In war there is no substitute for victory. There are some who for varying reasons would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier wars.

* In war there is no substitute for victory. There are some who for varying reasons would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier wars.

* ...once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision.<ref>Address to Congress, Apr. 19, 1951</ref>

* There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

* We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.  

* We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.  

* I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.  

* I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.  

* A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.  

* ...once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision.<ref>Address to Congress, Apr. 19, 1951</ref>

* Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.<ref>William M Leary, ''Macarthur and the American Century: A Reader'' (2001)</ref>

* Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.<ref>William M Leary, ''Macarthur and the American Century: A Reader'' (2001)</ref>

* Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions — those institutions we proudly called the American way of life. <ref>Speech in Lansing, Michigan, May 15, 1951</ref>

* Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions — those institutions we proudly called the American way of life. <ref>Speech in Lansing, Michigan, May 15, 1951</ref>

* It [socialism] discourages development of moral forces which would preserve inviolate our representative form of government, answerable to the will of the electorate.<ref>Opening Centennial celebration, Seattle Wash, 11-13-1951</ref>  

* It [socialism] discourages development of moral forces which would preserve inviolate our representative form of government, answerable to the will of the electorate.<ref>Opening Centennial celebration, Seattle Wash, 11-13-1951</ref>  

* Are we going to squander our limited resources to the point of our own inevitable exhaustion or adopt commonsense policies of frugality which will insure financial stability in our time and a worthwhile heritage in that of our progeny?

* Are we going to squander our limited resources to the point of our own inevitable exhaustion, or adopt commonsense policies of frugality which will insure financial stability in our time and a worthwhile heritage in that of our progeny?

* Are we going to continue to permit the pressure of alien doctrines top strongly influence the orientation of foreign an domestic policy or regain trust in our own traditions, experience and free institutions, and the wisdom of our own people?

* Are we going to continue to permit the pressure of alien doctrines to strongly influence the orientation of foreign and domestic policy, or regain trust in our own traditions, experience and free institutions, and the wisdom of our own people?

* In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness. The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which are heading with such certainly. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy, but in those immutable precepts which underlie the [[Ten Commandments.]]  

* In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which we are heading with such certainly. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy, but in those immutable precepts which underlie the [[Ten Commandments]].

* These pressures have already caused us to depart sharply from the course so long held toward national strength and moral greatness. Our economic statute built under the incentive of free enterprise is imperiled by our drift through the back door of confiscatory taxation toward socialism.  

* These pressures have already caused us to depart sharply from the course so long held toward national strength and moral greatness. Our economic statute built under the incentive of free enterprise is imperiled by our drift through the back door of confiscatory taxation toward socialism.  

* Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces?<ref>Cleveland OH, 09-06-1951</ref><ref>ibid. p. 125]</ref>     

* Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces?<ref>Cleveland OH, 09-06-1951</ref><ref>ibid. p. 125]</ref>     

* The people have it in their hands to restore morality, wisdom and direction to of our foreign and domestic affairs and regain the religious base which in times past assured general integrity in public and private life.<ref>Opening, Centennial celebration, Seattle Wash, 11-13-1951</ref><ref>ibid p. 125</ref>  

* The people have it in their hands to restore morality, wisdom and direction to of our foreign and domestic affairs, and regain the religious base which in times past assured general integrity in public and private life.<ref>Opening, Centennial celebration, Seattle Wash, 11-13-1951</ref><ref>ibid p. 125</ref>  

* ...The spiritual impulse is strong in many American hearts and constitutes a rugged bulwark in the defense of religious morality against the advance of any atheistic immorality.<ref>Salvation army, Waldorf-Astora hotel, New york, NY, 12-12-1951</ref><ref>ibid p. 127</ref>  

* ...The spiritual impulse is strong in many American hearts and constitutes a rugged bulwark in the defense of religious morality against the advance of any atheistic immorality.<ref>Salvation army, Waldorf-Astora hotel, New york, NY, 12-12-1951</ref><ref>ibid p. 127</ref>  

* Our great strength rests in those high-minded Americans whose faith in God and love of country transcends all selfishness and self-serving instincts.<ref>ibid p. 127</ref>   

* Our great strength rests in those high-minded Americans whose faith in God and love of country transcends all selfishness and self-serving instincts.<ref>ibid p. 127</ref>   

*There are those who seek to convert us to a form of socialistic endeavour leading directly to the path of Communist slavery.<ref>ibid p. 130</ref>

*There are those who seek to convert us to a form of socialistic endeavor leading directly to the path of Communist slavery.<ref>ibid p. 130</ref>

* There can be no compromise with atheistic Communism - no half-way in the preservation of freedom and religion.<ref>Massachusetts legislature, Boston, 7-25-1951</ref><ref>ibid p. 128</ref>

* There can be no compromise with atheistic Communism - no half-way in the preservation of freedom and religion.<ref>Massachusetts legislature, Boston, 7-25-1951</ref><ref>ibid p. 128</ref>

* We all dream of of the day when human conduct will be governed by the Decalogue and the Sermon and the Mount.<ref>Veterans of the Rainbow (42nd) Infantry Div. WW1, Wash. DC. 7-14-1935</ref><ref>ibid p. 128</ref>     

* We all dream of of the day when human conduct will be governed by the Decalogue and the Sermon and the Mount.<ref>Veterans of the Rainbow (42nd) Infantry Div. WW1, Wash. DC. 7-14-1935</ref><ref>ibid p. 128</ref>     

* History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed in to political and economic decline.<ref>America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations</ref>  

* History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed in to political and economic decline.<ref>America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations</ref>