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Douglas MacArthur

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
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
Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Accurate Except Five Good Intelligence Isolate Only Percent Report Trick
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Defense Produce Strategy Ultimate Victory
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
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Fear Government Kept Perpetual State
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
It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Better Blood Carriage Earnest Emerge Form Hope Indeed Mankind Occasion Out Past Shall Solemn World
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Afraid Die Fit Live
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Continuous Fear Government Kept Patriotic Perpetual Size Stampede State
No army has ever done so much with so little.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Army Done Ever Little Much So
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
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
We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Community Control Dedicate Destroy Enemy Foundation People Restore Task Vestige
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
What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Direction Euakity Friendly Imperious Seek Shame Signity Understanding Support

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