“I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 158 of 1106
“Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.”
“Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.”
“We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today”
“It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.”
“But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”
“It's time for Congress to act, restore the Voting Rights Act, and take action to prevent voter disenfranchisem ent. As your next Congresswoman, I will stand up to the extremists in the Republican Party to ensure civil rights are protected for everyone.”
“The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.”
“When you squeeze an orange, you'll always get orange juice to come out. What comes out is what's inside. The same logic applies to you: when someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, or says something unflattering or critical, and out of you comes anger, hatred, bitterness, tension, depression, or anxiety, that is what's inside. If love and joy are what you want to give and receive, change your life by changing what's inside”
“It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.”
“How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
“Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately made by the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled that 'all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights' This declaration of Independence was received and ratified by all the States in the Union & has never been disannuled. May we not from hence conclude, that the doctrine of Liberty and Equality is an article in the political creed of the United States.”
“The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.”
“We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.”
“Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.”
“A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.”
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.”
“A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.”
“Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.”