"Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be."

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Source : Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

Douglas MacArthur

#Country Quotes #Honor Quotes #Three Quotes

“I think you can just go out and try to be the best you can be, deal with people with respect, with honesty, with integrity, have a high moral standard. I've always really tried to exemplify that as an athlete. I'll continue to try to do that.”

Source : Tom Brady Press Conference at Gillette Stadium, www.courant.com. January 22, 2015.
“If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.”
“In establishment Indian and Pakistani thought, Kashmiris are defined as different from the nationals of the two countries.”
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.”
“Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.”
“When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.”
“Lately I've been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and how I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be. And when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”
“If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.”

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