序 言（5）
《责任 荣誉 国家》作者：(美)麦克阿瑟 等著 2017-02-10 18:03
序言（5）
Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagi nation, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean. The unbe lievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. Ever y pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule.
But these are some of the things they do. They build your basic character. T hey mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation's defense. Th ey make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yo urself when you are afraid. They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest f ailure, but humble and gentle in success; not to substitute words for actions, n ot to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty an d challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm but to have compassion on those w ho fall; to master yourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart th at is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to wee p; to reach into the future yet never neglect the past; to be serious yet never to take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simpl icity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true stre ngth. They give you a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life, a temperamental predom inance of courage over timidity, of an appetite for adventure over love of ease. They create in your h
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Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagi nation, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean. The unbe lievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. Ever y pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule.
But these are some of the things they do. They build your basic character. T hey mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation's defense. Th ey make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yo urself when you are afraid. They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest f ailure, but humble and gentle in success; not to substitute words for actions, n ot to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty an d challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm but to have compassion on those w ho fall; to master yourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart th at is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to wee p; to reach into the future yet never neglect the past; to be serious yet never to take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simpl icity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true stre ngth. They give you a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life, a temperamental predom inance of courage over timidity, of an appetite for adventure over love of ease. They create in your h