In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURCompetitive 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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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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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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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
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I 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.
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We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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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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