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4 ~ + « Pronouncements of om, . General. Douglas MacArthur “The inescapable price of Liberty is an : ability to preserve. it from: destruction.” © ' "Only those are fit to afraid to die.” - "The springs of human conflict cannot but only | live who are not ; : be eradicated through institutions, . through reform of the individual human ‘History teaches us that. religion ‘and Biricisn have always gorie hand in hand, hile atheism has invariably been accom- panied by enemies of free government,” death (the soldier) discloses those divine attributes which his Maker: gave when He created man in His own image. No physi- ..cal courage and ‘no brute instinct'can take the placé ‘of the divine annunciation and ‘spiritual uplift'which sustains hini.” - ' “Tt doesn't. matter how much you haye, as long as you fight with what you have. It doesn't matter where you fight, so long as you fight. Because-where you fight the enemy has to fight, too, and even tho it lits your force, it must split his force also. fight on whatever the.scale, whenever and wherever you can. There is only one way to win victories: ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACKI" oe, “In battle and in the face of danger and 7 TTT nS mre te on tt eee ects ene ‘Relative national defense: “To exercise privilege without assuming attendant responsibility and obligation is to proclaim ‘willingness: to see this Nation perish rather than participate in its de- . fense." “An adequate army, to the nation, is identical with: an adequate fire department to every town and city ... The cost of pre- venting a fire from sweeping a city is in- significant when-‘compared with the cost of destruction when a city is in flames.” Declaration of principle at a dinner in Parliament House, Canberra, Australia: . “There is a link that binds our countries together, which does not depend upon a written protocol, upon treaties ‘of alliance, or upon military doctrine. I bring to you the unbreakable spirit of the free man's military code in support of our just cause. That code has come down to us from even before the days of knighthood and chiv- alry. It will stand the. test of any ethics or. Philosophies the world has ever known. It embraces the things that are right and condemns the things that are wrong. ' UNDER ITS BANNER THE FREE MEN OF THE WORLD ARE UNITED TODAY.” Larner ae Fees ee ee ewe ee ye. General MacArthur's Bible Week mes- sage—1942; _: “Two thousand years:ago a man dared stand for truth, for freedom of the human spirit, was crucified and died, yet this death was not the end but only the be- ginning, to be followed by the resurrection and the life. For twenty centuries the story of the man.of Galilee has served for all Christians as a lesson and as a symbol so that today when we stress the spiritual significance of our united efforts to re establish the supremacy of our Christian principles. we can humbly and without Presumption declare our faith and conti- dence with God’s help in our final victory.” 1942 Father's Day Message Sent From Australia by General MacArthur: “By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder, in- finitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build: A father only builds, never destroys. * * * My hope is that my son, when I am gone, will re- member me not only from the battle but in the home repeating with him our simple prayer, “OUR FATHER , WHO ART IN HEAVEN." :