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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.

Douglas MacArthur

There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Foxhole No
Americans never quit.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Country never Quit
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
Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Broken Hide Lazy Made Mostly Ofen Rule
I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Command Country Criticism Enough Fought One People Person Troop War
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
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 Force Imminent Nation Nonsense Security Talk Threat
Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Ended Great Gun Silent Today Tragedy
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 Better Fire Learn Lesson Life never Past Regain
Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Against Blank Cartridge Danger Head Hurt Mob Over Person Use Volley
Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Any Bear Down Ecer Embrace Ethics Freemasonry Highest Law Philosophy Promulgated System Test Upifit
Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Army Distinguish Mob Training
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
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Earth Only Opportunity Security
A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Curse Die End Goran Growl Soldier Sweat
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Demand Dund Evil Exorbitant Furnishing Happen Quite Real Terrible

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