Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1874 |
| AUTHOR: | Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) |
| QUOTATION: | Upon the fields of friendly strife Are sown the seeds That, upon other fields, on other days Will bear the fruits of victory. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | General MacArthur wrote these lines while superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, 1919–1922, and had them engraved over the entrance to the gymnasium. |
| SUBJECTS: | Victory |