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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

Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Although Bring Civilization Discovery Lesson Profound Progressive Reach Survival War
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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Beginning Men Peace Since Sought Time
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.
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Abound Arm Change Great Longer Nowhere Past Profession
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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Country Countrymen Honor Live Safety Soldier Untruthful
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.
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Country Die Dream Long Part People Person Young
No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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Annunciation Courage Divine Instinct Physical Spiritual
WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
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Basically Chance Have Human Improvement Involve Last Problem Spiritual
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.
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Interest May Skin Soul Wrinkle Year
No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Army Done Ever Little Much So
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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Earth Only Opportunity Security
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
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.
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Demand Dund Evil Exorbitant Furnishing Happen Quite Real Terrible
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
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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Employing Irrevocable Other Penalities Personnel Profession Untrain World
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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Country Decade Duty Hollow Honor Nan Ought Revertiny Will Word
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Body Soul Wait Wrinkle
The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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Chicken Come Happen Home House Just Move Roost
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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Bless Entitle Freedom Man Preservation Unless Vigilant
I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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Almighty Country Forever God Grace Return Soul Stand
I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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Flagpole See Stand Still
Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Always God Let Peace Pray Preserve Restore World
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.
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Few Know Living Men More Nothing Revolt War
Americans never quit.
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Country never Quit
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.
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Both Enormous Mutual Side Suicide Wage War
In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Substitute Victory War
Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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Broken Hide Lazy Made Mostly Ofen Rule
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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Door Even Knock Open Opportunity Seat

I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

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