Quotes about Courage

Freedom is not free

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingness to sacrifice for them. Accepting Republican nomination, Detroit, July 17, 1980

History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same.

I hope when you are my age, you'll be able to say - as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. Our lives were a statement, not an apology.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.

People had not so much as the courage and honesty and truth to say to God bluntly, That I cannot agree to, they resorted to hypocrisy and thought they were perfectly secure. pp 168-6

For my part I can in a way understand Abraham, but at the same time I apprehend that I have not the courage to speak, and still less to act as he did — but by this I do not by any means intend to say that what he did was insignificant, for on the contrary it is the one only marvel.

Only in much fear and trembling is a human being able to speak with God, in much fear and trembling