Build 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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURPreparedness is the key to success and victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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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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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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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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WE 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.
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For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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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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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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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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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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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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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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