Article July 31, 1971 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Douglas MacArthur, Arnold J. Walker

From a speech by
General Douglas MacArthur
as reported in The Rotarian
Evanston, Illinois

Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind.... [It] is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life. It means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of an appetite for adventure over love of ease. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years.

People grow old only by deserting their ideals.... Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear, and despair— these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.

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