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Quote DB :: Authors :: Douglas MacArthur :: View Quote View Quote "No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Douglas MacArthur Listed in: Freedom Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.88  Rate Quote 8 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Douglas MacArthur "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. 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." "Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die." "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." "Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." "Duty, honour, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn." Top 5 quotes from Freedom "It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever." "The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing." "A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man." "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." "Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer."

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