courage Quotes

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.