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 MACARTHURIn 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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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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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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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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The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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