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Courage first

Courage is the first of all the virtues because if you haven’t courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of the others.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 17, 2023Categories strengthTags Samuel Johnson

Measuring success

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 7, 2021March 7, 2021Categories strengthTags Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.

Courage

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 24, 2019Categories strength, virtueTags Mark Twain

Man must be bigger than the state

A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands — even for beneficial purposes — will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 10, 2016November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories strengthTags John Stuart Mill

Self defense

Though defensive violence will always be ‘a sad necessity’ in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 9, 2015November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories strengthTags St. Augustine

Power doesn’t equal greatness

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 28, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories strengthTags Stewart L. Udall

Be firm

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 5, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories strengthTags Alexander Hamilton

Neutrality requires strength

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 5, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories strengthTags Alexander Hamilton

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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