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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

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
A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Army Backward Expect Forward Good Lead Look Much Only Platoon Soldier Think Well
To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Destroy Dilute Game Purpose Substitute Victory Will Win
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
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
Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Die Fight Know Men Without
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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Interest May Skin Soul Wrinkle Year
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
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Appease Country Reason Red Some Vary
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Bad Command General Good Just Make Troop
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
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Address Bitterness Country Fade Life Mind Neither Purpose Rancor Serve Twilight
Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Key Preparedness Success Victory
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
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
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

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