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Douglas MacArthur
American
Soldier
Born:
Jan 26
,
1880
Died:
Apr 5
,
1964
Country
Die
Never
Victory
War
World
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
Douglas MacArthur
You
Rules
Remembered
Break
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur
War
Veterans Day
Peace
Others
Soldier
Must
Wounds
Scars
Above
Bear
Prays
Who
Suffer
Deepest
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur
War
Me
Son
Humble
Strong
Victory
Will
Face
Be Strong
Build
Defeat
Enough
Weak
He
Know
Himself
Gentle
Proud
Lord
Brave
Afraid
Who
Honest
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur
Great
Nation
Our
Security
Threat
Insidious
Great Nation
Concerned
Forces
Because
Within
Without
Am
Any
Much
Working
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthur
Veterans Day
You
Words
Honor
Will
Three
Country
Duty
Ought
Those
Hallowed
Dictate
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthur
Struggle
World
Conspiracy
Other
Side
Constant
Voice
Crowd
Roar
Brave
Against
Age-Old
Your
Conscience
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur
Soul
Age
Wrinkles
Quitting
Body
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur
Government
Patriotism
Fear
National
State
Our
Emergency
Cry
Perpetual
Continuous
Fervor
Patriotic
Us
Grave
Kept
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Douglas MacArthur
Old
Soldiers
Never
Fade
Die
Just
Away
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Douglas MacArthur
Faith
World
Better
Better World
Understanding
Emerge
Shall
Based
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur
War
Fear
Country
Our
Nurtured
Geared
Propaganda
General
Misguided
Part
Hysteria
Induced
Economy
Arms
Policy
Artificially
Psychosis
Which
Pattern
Bred
Incessant
Now
Americans never quit.
Douglas MacArthur
Patriotism
Never
Never Quit
American
Quit
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Douglas MacArthur
War
Win
Will
Enter
Without
Any
Fatal
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur
War
Fear
Country
Our
Geared
Propaganda
Hysteria
Induced
Economy
Arms
Artificially
Psychosis
Bred
Incessant
Now
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Douglas MacArthur
Obeyed
Give
Never
Order
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
Savage
History
Men
Filthy
Those
Bay
Wounded
Like
Were
Wolves
Lousy
Died
Loved
Them
Hard
I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
Douglas MacArthur
Life
Time
Journey
Soul
Honor
Will
My Life
Become
Matters
Whatever
Soldier
Way
Wearing
My Soul
Could
Part
Suppose
Come
Greater
American
Done
Forth
Really
Symbol
There is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur
Success
Victory
Substitute
Life is a lively process of becoming.
Douglas MacArthur
Life
Life Is A
Becoming
Process
Lively
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacArthur
War
Other
Tremendously
Press
Propaganda
Support
Without
Opinion
Wage
Conditions
Cannot
Which
Forms
Public
Molded
Public Opinion
Present
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.
Douglas MacArthur
Home
Evil
Power
Blindly
Rally
Monstrous
Has-Been
Some
Terrible
Always
Foreign
Been
Up
Did
Going
Behind
Us
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacArthur
God
Light
Old
Duty
Military
Gave
Soldier
Tried
See
Fade
Goodbye
Like
Him
Ballad
His
Close
Just
Who
Now
Away
Career
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Douglas MacArthur
Good
Bad
General
Troops
Make
Him
Command
His
Just
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
Douglas MacArthur
Live
Those
Only
Fit
Die
Afraid
Who
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Douglas MacArthur
War
Dreams
Strange
Battlefield
Guns
Rattle
Hear
Mournful
Crash
Again
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
Long
Country
Young
Live
Those
Willing
Dream
Only
Part
Fit
American
Die
American Dream
Who
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