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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.

Douglas MacArthur

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

Grow Living Merely Nobody Number Old Year
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

All Best Luck Make Yourself
They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Consider Course Expres Future Justice National Plain Protect Resolve
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
The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Above Greatest Other Practice Religious REquired Sacrifice Soldier Training
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
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

Fact Father Great Infinitely Price Profession Prouder Soldier Take
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
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Bless Entitle Freedom Man Preservation Unless Vigilant
No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Annunciation Courage Divine Instinct Physical Spiritual
In war there is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Substitute Victory War
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Door Even Knock Open Opportunity Seat
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

Continuous Fear Government Kept Patriotic Perpetual Size Stampede State
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
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

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