The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWhoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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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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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR