The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURBuild me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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 have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
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“Duty, Honor, Country” – those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
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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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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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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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Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
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