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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur

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
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
War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Indecision Object Prolonged Substitute Very Victory War
Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Country Firmer History Imprint Left Name People Person Time
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
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
I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Ashes Better Fire Learn Lesson Life never Past Regain
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
They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Bay Die Hard Savage Wolf Wond
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
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
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Aim Artificially Bred Country Economy Gear Generally Induce Misguide Park Pattern Policy Psychosis
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
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Enter Fatal Key War Will Win 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

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

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