Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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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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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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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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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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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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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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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
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