Douglas MacArthur Quotes

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.

We must dissent from the fear.

To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

I have not yet begun to fight!

Who am I to blow against the wind?

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.

I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

Sometimes you pay a price for standing up.

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

I am as fearless as the Rani of Jhansi and I will fight against all those people who are dragging me in controversy.

She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle...she fails in the end but there's something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

They say you can know a man by his enemies, Dresden." He smiled, and laughter lurked beneath his next words, never quite surfacing. "You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm's way to defend those who cannot defend themselves." He nodded slowly. "I think I like you.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

Andrius, I'm...scared." He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.