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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Douglas MacArthur

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Against Brave Conspiracy Constant World
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Expect Forever Keep Live Promise Through
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
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Achivevmnet Country Effort Grandeur Greatest History Mark Military Scale
Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Give Skin Soul Wrinkle Year
The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Above Greatest Other Practice Religious REquired Sacrifice Soldier Training
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
People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Again Almighty Country Forec God Grace People Person Return Soil Stand
Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Die Fight Know Men Without
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Government Liberty Limitation Object Power Practice
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
Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Brain Die Grip Lose never Old Reality Require Soldier Traumatic
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
They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Consider Course Expres Future Justice National Plain Protect Resolve
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
The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Beach Complete Deep Done Entire Journey Life Silent Symbol Thousand Wear World

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