Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

No guts, no glory.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.

Resistance is the protest of those who hope, and hope is the feast of the people who resist.

Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.