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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

Douglas MacArthur

I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Address Bitterness Country Fade Life Neither Purpose Rancor Twilight
Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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Give Skin Soul Wrinkle Year
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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Beginning Men Peace Since Sought Time
Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Aspiration Center Entire Faith Hope Human Race
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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Country Die Dream Long Part People Person Young
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Aim Artificially Bred Country Economy Gear Generally Induce Misguide Park Pattern Policy Psychosis
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Beauty Courage Covered Heard Hope Indeed Long Massage Snow Young
A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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Curse Die End Goran Growl Soldier Sweat
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

Before Bring Dear Despair Die Doubt Down Dust Enemy Ground Slowly Turn
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Bless Entitle Freedom Man Preservation Unless Vigilant
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

Flagpole See Stand Still
l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Few Know Living Men More Nothing Revolt War
What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Body Soul Wait Wrinkle

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