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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.

Douglas MacArthur

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
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Enter Fatal Key War Will Win Without
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
Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Bed Before Believe Ever Good Ner Reach Right Sir Try World
The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Many May Oth Palin West Point Times Turn World
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
Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Key Preparedness Success Victory
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

All Bear Deepest Other Peace People Pray Scar Soldier Suffer War
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Automatic Encounter Mightier never Obviously Pen Sword Weapon
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
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Away Die Face Just never Old Soldier
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Afraid Die Fit Live
l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Few Know Living Men More Nothing Revolt War
You are remembered for the rules you break.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Break Remember Rule
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
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

To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.

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