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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

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
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
I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Advice Cost Nothing Realize Worth
I came through and I shall return.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Came Through Return
Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Die Fight Know Men Without
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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Country Die Dream Long Part People Person Young
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
Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Always God Let Peace Pray Preserve Restore World
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Away Die Face Just never Old Soldier
I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Cause Confidence Courage Ever Joint Modern Require Something Success Ultimate Willingness
The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Act Highest Men Offer Perform Religious Require Sacrifice Soldier
For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Down Given Institute Knock REquired Substitute Those Victory
The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Away Behind Enemy Front Left Tight
By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Fact Infinitely Pride Profession Prouder Soldier Take
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 am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Concern Force Great Insidious Nation Security Work

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