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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Douglas MacArthur

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

Employing Irrevocable Other Penalities Personnel Profession Untrain World
There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Foxhole No
To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Destroy Dilute Game Purpose Substitute Victory Will Win
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
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Appease Country Reason Red Some Vary
The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Interplanetary Nation Next Unite War World
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
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Enter Fatal Key War Will Win Without
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Bad Command General Good Just Make Troop
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Demand Dund Evil Exorbitant Furnishing Happen Quite Real Terrible
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
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Government Liberty Limitation Object Power Practice
I came through and I shall return.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Came Through Return
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Bear Day Field Fields Friendly Fruit Other Seed Sown Strife Victory
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Give never Obeyed Orde

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