Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWE 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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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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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
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I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
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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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A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
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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 see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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