No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURSo long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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By profession I am a soldier and take 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.
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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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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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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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The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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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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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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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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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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