Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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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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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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Americans never quit.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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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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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
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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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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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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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