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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

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
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
Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Army Destroy Line Nine Serve Supply Time
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 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

Address Bitterness Country Fade Life Mind Neither Purpose Rancor Serve Twilight
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Advance Civilization Force Great Greatest Mount Outward Question Sermon Since War World
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
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Body Soul Wait Wrinkle
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
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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Advance Another Direction Retreat
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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Fact Infinitely Pride Profession Prouder Soldier Take
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
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
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Afraid Die Fit Live
Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Beware Enemy From Within

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