“Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 240 of 1106
“Arabs and Mulims are not terrorists.The world should unite against Israel.”
“O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!”
“Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.”
“We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
“O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!”
“If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.”
“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”
“I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.”
“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.”
“O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.”
“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.”
“Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.”
“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.”
“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.”
“It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.”
“If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.”
“What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.”
“Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.”
“And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”