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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Bay Die Hard Savage Wolf Wond
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
I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Believe Concerned Endeavour Entire Modern Nation Outlaw Problem Society Solution
In war there is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Substitute Victory War
We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Advance Another Direction Retreat
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
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Expect Forever Keep Live Promise Through
He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Action Become Integrity Intent Leader Set
Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Die Fight Know Men Without
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Decay Economical Fail History More Nation Pass Political Precedent Record Single Subject
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Enter Fatal Key War Will Win Without
It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Appeasement Blackmail Instance Mean Peace Shame Successfully Violence
No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Encounter Enemy Ever First Plan Survive
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
I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Batman Came Out Return Shall
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

Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.

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