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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.
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James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, 1826
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.
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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.
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James Madison (1751 - 1836), The Federalist Papers, 1788
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.
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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.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
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Potter Stewart
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in praise of Robert Frost, 1963
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