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"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."

Howe, Edgar Watson on heroes and heroism
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"What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair."

Thompson, Roy on heroes and heroism
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"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."

Baruch, Bernard M. on freedom    Share

"The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry."

Adams, James Truslow on worry
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"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."

Hoffer, Eric on freedom
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"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage."

Thucydides on happiness
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"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."

Macleish, Archibald on freedom
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"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."

Hamilton, Edith on freedom
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"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."

Maugham, W. Somerset on freedom    Share

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too."

Maugham, W. Somerset on freedom
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"The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler."

Sullivan, Mark on heroes and heroism    Share

"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle."

Schwarzkopf, Norman on heroes and heroism
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"What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes --ah, they have all the necessary leisure."

Huxley, Aldous on heroes and heroism
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"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example."

Disraeli, Benjamin on heroes and heroism    Share

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

Dylan, Bob on heroes and heroism
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"A hero is someone right who doesn't change."

Foreman, George on heroes and heroism
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"I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me."

Garibaldi, Giuseppe on heroes and heroism    Share

"The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on heroes and heroism
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"A hero is someone we can admire without apology."

Kelley, Kitty on heroes and heroism    Share

"What is a hero without love for mankind."

Lessing, Doris on heroes and heroism
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"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?"

Macaulay, Thomas B. on heroes and heroism    Share

"A hero is a man who is afraid to run away."

Proverb, English on heroes and heroism
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"Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad."

Hutchinson, B. E. on security    Share

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