“Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 203 of 1106
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”
“When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.”
“I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.”
“You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.”
“Mo' money, mo' problems.”
“Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.”
“There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.”
“Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.”
“Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in which he efficiently serves the United States. It is our duty to support him when he serves the United States well. It is our duty to oppose him when he serves it badly. This is true about Mr. Wilson now and it has been true about all our Presidents in the past. It is our duty at all times to tell the truth about the President and about every one else, save in the cases where to tell the truth at the moment would benefit the public enemy.”
“Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".”
“Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country.”
“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”
“By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline.”
“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”
“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.”
“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”
“The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.”
“That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.”