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Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?

Douglas MacArthur

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Broken Hide Lazy Made Mostly Ofen Rule
Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Execute Good Plan Today Violently
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
Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Key Preparedness Success Victory
The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Clean Confront Define Directly Fundamental Involve Issue Nation Republic Survival Today
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
From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Beachhead Country East Every Far Idea Red Send Single Sole Thought Written
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
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 world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Against Brave Conspiracy Constantly 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
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Again Battlefield City Crash Dream Gun Here Mournful Mutter Rattle Strange
By profession I am a soldier and take great 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. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Fact Father Great Infinitely Price Profession Prouder Soldier Take
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
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
Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Alive Competitive Keep Spirit Sports Vitality

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