==World War II==
In 1935 Manuel Quezon was president of the newly-created Philippine Commonwealth, and invited MacArthur to return to [[Manila]] as head of the American military mission charged with preparing the islands for full independence by 1946. On the way to Manila, he had a stop in Tennessee and met Jean Marie Faircloth of Murfreesboro, falling in love almost immediately, and getting married soon after that; Jean would be instrumental in filling the void when his mother passed away soon after their arrival in the Philippines. And at age 58, Arthur IV was born, making MacArthur an attentive and doting father. These years in the Philippines would prove the happiest of his life, even as they were slowly overshadowed by an expanding, and aggressive, Japan. Money, troops and material from the States would not come in time when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941; when the Japanese made a simultaneous strike on the Philippines, MacArthur's air force was knocked out, and his army left to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula in tatters. He would sit at his command post on the nearby island of Corregidor, nearly helpless as everything around him crumbled.
[[Image:Surrender at tokyo bay.jpg|thumb|200px|left|MacArthur at Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945.]]
He had intended to fight alongside his men, but President Franklin Roosevelt wouldn't allow it. A direct order from him had MacArthur and his family placed onboard on board a small PT boat, where he met up with a larger transport to Australia, and from there he began the plans to retake the Pacific from the Japanese, vowing "I shall return" to the Filipino people, a remark which became synonymous with the war effort. MacArthur's war was then a two-front war, as he fought the Japanese forces on one side, and the United States Navy on the other. But his plan, which called for "island hopping" - bypassing Japanese-held islands in favor of those strategically placed for use by American forces - prevailed, as well as his intent to liberate the Philippines as part of it. By October, 1944 America's most famous general made his dramatic landing at Leyte; the remainder of the islands were fully liberated within months. On September 2, 1945, onboard USS ''Missouri'' in Tokyo Bay, he presided over the Japanese surrender, ending World War II. His last remarks on ending the war were simple. "Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always. These proceedings are closed".<ref>http://www.freedomdocuments.com/macarthur.html</ref>
In part of a radio address after the ceremony, MacArthur stated to a world audience,
==Governing Japan==
MacArthur, by then one of the leading figures in military history, determined to rebuild Japan as an example of democracy, and in so doing made his greatest contribution. During the next several years he initiated polices for occupation (he stipulated that revengeful soldiers would get five years in prison if they so much as slapped a Japanese citizen), wrote and implemented a constitution, and charted a course for Japan which led it to become an economic and industrial colossus by the 1970's1970s. His rule of Japan is considered fair and progressive, and MacArthur claimed, a greater source of satisfaction to him than his military successes.
==Korea==
* 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>
* 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>