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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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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.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
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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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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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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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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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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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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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Americans never quit.
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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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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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