“Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 38 of 1106
“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.”
“Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.”
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.”
“In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.”
“It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always ready to forgive, totally understanding, unendingly patient, invariably tender and loving, unfailing in every area, anticipating every need, and making more than adequate provision. Such expectations put a man under an impossible strain”
“To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.”
“It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.”
“You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.”
“A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.”
“A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.”
“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.”
“My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.”
“We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.”
“Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.”
“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.”
“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
“Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?”
“Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.”
“Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.”