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Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 53 of 1106
“Intolerance is evidence of impotence.”
“For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.”
“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin'd to destroy the people's liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.”
“And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.”
“When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.”
“We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.”
“Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.”
“Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
“We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.”
“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.”
“If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”
“Who planted terrorism in our area? Some came and took our land, forced us to leave, forced us to live in camps. I think this is terrorism. Using means to resist this terrorism and stop its effects - this is called struggle.”
“Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.”
“The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.”
“Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them.”
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
“Don't let anyone speak for you, and don't rely on others to fight for you.”
“It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.”