Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
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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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It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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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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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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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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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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I came through and I shall return.
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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