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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

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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

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

Ever Much So
Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Let Preserve
He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Become Intent Leader Set
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

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 Hard Savage Wond
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Command General Just Make Troop
The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Interplanetary Next Unite
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

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 Still
Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Broken Made Mostly Ofen
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

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

Ever Joint Modern Require Something Willingness
I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

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 Learn never Regain
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 Successfully
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Form Mold Press Propaganda Tremendously Under Wage
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Application Extremal Imminent Nonsense Threat
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

Infinitely Profession Prouder Take
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Give never Obeyed Orde

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