The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
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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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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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By profession I am a soldier and take 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.
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Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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Americans never quit.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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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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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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