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- The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
- Marcus Claudius Tacitus
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle of existence.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
- Democracy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone will fail.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
- Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999)
- If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means tat the disease is incurable.
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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