No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
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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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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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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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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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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
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Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
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