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

Burke, Edmund on corruption   

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

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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green on courage
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"One man with courage makes a majority."

Jackson, Andrew on courage
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"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 on courage   

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

Eco, Umberto on courage
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"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

Disraeli, Benjamin on courage   

"Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience."

Clarke, James Freeman on courage   

"There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted."

Thoreau, Henry David on corruption
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"The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference."

Myerson, Bess on corruption   

"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."

Kraus, Karl on corruption   

"I am against government by crony."

Ickes, Harold L. on corruption   

"Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid."

King, Basil on courage
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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."

Twain, Mark on courage
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"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."

Zapata, Emiliano on courage
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"The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]"

Bible on courage   

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites."

Unknown, Source on courage
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"It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?"

Unknown, Source on courage   

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

Twain, Mark on courage
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear."

Twain, Mark on courage
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"No one reaches a high position without daring."

Syrus, Publilius on courage   

"The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority."

Stockman, Ralph W. on courage   

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

Lee, Harper on courage
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"It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out."

Rossner, Judith on courage
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"The brave person thinks of themselves last of all."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on courage
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"Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y."

Schuller, Robert H. on courage   

"The will to do, the soul to dare."

Scott, Sir Walter on courage
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"Fortune can take away riches, but not courage."

Seneca on courage
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"I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow."

King, B. B. on plagiarism   

"Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world."

Mclaren, Malcolm on plagiarism   

"Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em."

Proctor, Bryan Waller on plagiarism   

"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on plagiarism   

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"They lard their lean books with the fat of others work."

Burton, Sir Richard on plagiarism   

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"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."

Burke, Edmund on planning   

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"Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives."

Gay, John on villains   

"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."

Dickens, Charles on villains
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