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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

Douglas MacArthur

No army has ever done so much with so little.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Army Done Ever Little Much So
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
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
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
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
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
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
If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Devise Door Greater More Quotable Some System
However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Call Country Development Give Horrible Incident Mankind May Noblest Offer Soldier Upon
Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Conquer Fitpino Give Soldier Thousand World
In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Both Enormous Mutual Side Suicide Wage War
I came through and I shall return.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Came Through Return
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Away Die Face Just never Old Soldier
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
Security lies in our ability to produce.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Ability Lies Produce Security
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

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