It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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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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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.
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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.
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The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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I came through and I shall return.
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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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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 by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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By profession I am a soldier and take great 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. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
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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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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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