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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

Douglas MacArthur

It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Appeasement Blackmail Instance Mean Peace Shame Successfully Violence
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Condition Form Mold Opinion Present Press Propaganda Public Support Tremendously Under Wage
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
Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Cause Unprotect War Wealth
I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Batman Came Out Return Shall
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

Going Institution Integrity Morality Permit Private Public Reestablish Standard
Security lies in our ability to produce.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Ability Lies Produce Security
In war there is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Substitute Victory War
There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Foxhole No
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Decay Economical Fail History More Nation Pass Political Precedent Record Single Subject
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
A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Army Backward Expect Forward Good Lead Look Much Only Platoon Soldier Think Well
Life is a lively process of becoming.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Become Live Lively Process
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
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
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

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