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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. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#age-old #brave #conscience #conspiracy #constant

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. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#american dream #country #die #dream #fit

Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#arafat #been #cause #close #done

Americans never quit. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#never quit #quit

In war there is no substitute for victory. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#victory #war

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 MacArthur

#continuous #cry #emergency #fear #fervor

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#give #skin #soul #up #wrinkle

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#ballad #career #close #duty #fade

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. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#been #behind #blindly #did #evil

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

— Douglas MacArthur

#finer #front #i #just #marines