Douglas MacArthur: Moral courage: the courage of one's convictions; the courage to see a thing…
Moral courage: the courage of one's convictions; the courage to see a thing through.
- Source
- Remarks to West Point cadets on his eighty-fourth birthday, 26 January 1964; quoted in A Soldier Speaks (1965), ed. Vorin E. Whan Jr., pp. 366-367
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