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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
Side
World
Voice
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" Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. "
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" One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda. "
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" Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. "
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" It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. "
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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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" Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. "
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Country
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Working
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Policy
Country
" We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. "
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Advancing
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" 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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Power
Home
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