“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 62 of 1106
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
“My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.”
“Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.”
“I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.”
“Frodo: Go back, Sam! I’m going to Mordor alone. Sam: Of course you are, and I’m coming with you!”
“The greatest sin is fear and giving up.”
“A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.”
“If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain”
“The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.”
“Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.”
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.”
“The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”
“Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.”
“Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.”
“Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.”
“Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.”
“Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.”
“From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.”
“I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.”