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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURLife is a lively process of becoming.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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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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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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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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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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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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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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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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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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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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