“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 220 of 1106
“Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.”
“If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.”
“Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?”
“Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.”
“Challenge me, that'd be to my advantage I'm outstanding, like standing outside up in the twister, and walking out undamaged”
“In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.”
“If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.”
“We make our own hell out of the people around us.”
“We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.”
“I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love”
“Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense.”
“Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.”
“Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it. And I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and Independence for ever!”
“Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.”
“Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.”
“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.”
“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”
“With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.”
“I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.”