“When you stop fighting, that's death.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 214 of 1106
“It makes me so mad that some people underestimate the wisdom and energy of young people. All because they don't look the way older folks think they should look. I'm working on a song about it. Maybe some of those closed minded people will realize long hair and tattoos don't mean they should be ignored. Close minded people are part of what's wrong with this world.”
“For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.”
“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.”
“There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.”
“Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.”
“It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.”
“Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.”
“Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.”
“You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.”
“We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.”
“Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.”
“I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.”
“There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.”
“Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.”
“If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”
“Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.”
“When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us”
“Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs”
“The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.”