Douglas Macarthur

(188 votes)   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. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, ''Our Father Who Art in Heaven.''

Douglas Macarthur
1880-1964, American Army General in WW II

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(71 votes)   I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Douglas Macarthur
1880-1964, American Army General in WW II

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(63 votes)   The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Douglas Macarthur
1880-1964, American Army General in WW II

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(58 votes)   There's no security on this earth, only opportunity.

Douglas Macarthur
1880-1964, American Army General in WW II

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(56 votes)   It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

Douglas Macarthur
1880-1964, American Army General in WW II

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(42 votes)   Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Douglas Macarthur
1880-1964, American Army General in WW II

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(38 votes)   No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

Douglas Macarthur
1880-1964, American Army General in WW II

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(27 votes)   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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(25 votes)   A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

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(24 votes)   A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

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(24 votes)   My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

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(24 votes)   Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

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(23 votes)   I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

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(23 votes)   Life is a lively process of becoming.

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(22 votes)   Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

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