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How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.: James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, 1826
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I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expediency.: William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879), The Purpose of Education, Maroon Tiger, January-February 1947
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929
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The stories of past courage can define that ingredient-they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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The strongest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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Democracy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone will fail.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

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