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 MACARTHURThe 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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I came through and I shall return.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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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.
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It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
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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.
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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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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.
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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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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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