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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

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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Conquer Fitpino Give Soldier Thousand World
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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Advance Another Direction Retreat
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
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Government Liberty Limitation Object Power Practice
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Enter Fatal Key War Will Win Without
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
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Give never Obeyed Orde
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
Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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Give Skin Soul Wrinkle Year
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
Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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Key Preparedness Success Victory
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Body Soul Wait Wrinkle
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Against Brave Conspiracy Constant World
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Death Eye Look Many Old Rope Sounder Think Times
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

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By profession I am a soldier and take 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.
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Fact Infinitely Pride Profession Prouder Soldier Take
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Fight FIner Front Just Marine Organization Return Visit World
Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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Brain Die Grip Lose never Old Reality Require Soldier Traumatic
The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Beach Complete Deep Done Entire Journey Life Silent Symbol Thousand Wear World
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.
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Bed Before Believe Ever Good Ner Reach Right Sir Try World
Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Alternative Apply Available End Even Force Mean Swift Upon War
Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Awake Decline Game Joy Life Nation Political Record Spiritual Subject
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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Achivevmnet Country Effort Grandeur Greatest History Mark Military Scale
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
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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Back Bitterness Both Defeat Excitation Known Learn Triumph Turn

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