Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNo physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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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.
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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
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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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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Americans never quit.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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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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