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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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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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Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
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We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.: James Madison (1751 - 1836), The Federalist Papers, 1788
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People often say that this person is or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.: Potter Stewart
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in praise of Robert Frost, 1963

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