"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."

Burke, Edmund | Corruption | 1 bookmarks

"Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence."

Kennedy, Robert F. | Courage | 1 bookmarks

"The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else."

Jensen, Andrew | Courage | 2 bookmarks

"The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger."

Jackson, Andrew | Courage | 1 bookmarks

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

Ingersoll, Robert Green | Courage | 3 bookmarks

"One man with courage makes a majority."

Jackson, Andrew | Courage | 1 bookmarks

"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Courage | 1 bookmarks

"Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Courage | 3 bookmarks

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

Eco, Umberto | Courage | 2 bookmarks

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

Disraeli, Benjamin | Courage | 1 bookmarks