“We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 206 of 1106
“Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges”
“The entire socioeconomic system is based on production for profit and a growth imperative that cannot be sustained.”
“Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.”
“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”
“The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.”
“You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.”
“My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.”
“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”
“Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?”
“Don't learn safety by accident.”
“The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.”
“No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.”
“Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.”
“The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.”
“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.”
“I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.”
“Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.”
“Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business.”
“The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.”