I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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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. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
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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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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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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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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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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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WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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