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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

Douglas MacArthur

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Fight FIner Front Just Marine Organization Return Visit World
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Brave Build Enough Face Himself Son Strong Weak
No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Annunciation Courage Divine Instinct Physical Spiritual
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Fear Government Kept Perpetual State
There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Anything Complete Defeat Fraud History Humanity Incident led Peace
Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Awake Decline Game Joy Life Nation Political Record Spiritual Subject
War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Indecision Object Prolonged Substitute Very Victory War
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Continuous Fear Government Kept Patriotic Perpetual Size Stampede State
We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Abound Arm Change Great Longer Nowhere Past Profession
Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Ended Great Gun Silent Today Tragedy
Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Any Bear Down Ecer Embrace Ethics Freemasonry Highest Law Philosophy Promulgated System Test Upifit
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Asai Basic Become Blind Concordance Condition Country Course Destiny Evolutionary Last Own People Policy Purse Situation
Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Entirely Grow Life Live Mind Nearly Nobody Number Old State Time Year Youth
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Enter Fatal Key War Will Win Without
I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Advice Cost Nothing Realize Worth
WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Basically Chance Have Human Improvement Involve Last Problem Spiritual
“Duty, Honor, Country” – those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Be Country Dictate Duty Hollow Home Ought Reverently Thre
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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Give never Obeyed Orde
No army has ever done so much with so little.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Army Done Ever Little Much So
They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Bay Die Hard Savage Wolf Wond
Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Give Skin Soul Wrinkle Year
It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Better Blood Carriage Earnest Emerge Form Hope Indeed Mankind Occasion Out Past Shall Solemn World
We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Advance Another Direction Retreat
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Away Die Face Just never Old Soldier
Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Die Fight Know Men Without
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Back Bitterness Both Defeat Excitation Known Learn Triumph Turn
I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Believe Concerned Endeavour Entire Modern Nation Outlaw Problem Society Solution

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