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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Douglas MacArthur

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
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Automatic Encounter Mightier never Obviously Pen Sword Weapon
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Country Die Dream Long Part People Person Young
The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Chicken Come Happen Home House Just Move Roost
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

All Best Luck Make Yourself
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
From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Beachhead Country East Every Far Idea Red Send Single Sole Thought Written
l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Few Know Living Men More Nothing Revolt War
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
For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Down Given Institute Knock REquired Substitute Those Victory
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
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
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Again Battlefield City Crash Dream Gun Here Mournful Mutter Rattle Strange
We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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Advance Another Direction Retreat
We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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Advance Design Endure Goal Leadership Must Open Peace Progress Universal World
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

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