courage

"This evening, my thoughts return to the first night I addressed you from this house. September 11, 2001. That morning, terrorists took nearly 3,000 lives in the worst attack on America since Pearl Har…"

"Stop, you political tramp. You, the aider and abettor of those who have brought all this ruin upon your country, without the courage to risk your person in defense of the principles you profess to esp…"

"Let us, as we value our own self-respect, face the responsibilities with proper seriousness, courage, and high resolve. We must demand the highest order of integrity and ability in our public men who …"

"Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind."

"Leave the courageous here and everywhere."

"Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her."

"Why is it that so many men of small stature have more courage than men of size?"

"We, you, reader, and I, are parts of nature, and are as liable to deserve the suspicion of infallibility as any other part. Why not? We represent the boldest and most elaborate evolutions. Why should …"

"He had said from the first that the war had been a hideous blunder, and he had supported that opinion in the House of Commons. ... Stop the farm-burning; it had been a great mistake and was against Br…"

"Gen. Winfield Scott’s address to the Cherokee Nation"

"All of us fight a battle every day, but we just don’t know it. Love tries to defeat hatred. Bravery destroys fear."

"Chávez at The My Hero Project"

"Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test."

"Interview: Tim Kring, Heroes creator, The TV Addict, 2006-10-12"

"I encourage people to look into the Transition Network."

"There had been many brave men in the ranks, but they were learning that bravery of itself has little to do with success in battle."

"The new heroism — put a village idiot into a pressure cooker, seal it up tight, and shoot him at the moon."

"The story of their gallantry came to epitomize a spirit of courage, duty and self-sacrifice."

"Without a hint of shyness, and standing totally in the nude except for a large silver top hat, he took out his "brush" and began sketching portraits of those brave enough to be his subjects."

"An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching."