Courage and Strength

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

Who overcomes

What though the field be lost?

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

Let us, then, be up and doing,

The heights by great men reached and kept

I think the necessity of being ready increases. Look to it.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If you can keep your head when all about you

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land … So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art.

There is an imperative which commands a certain conduct immediately, without having as its condition any other purpose to be attained by it. This imperative is Categorical … This imperative may be called that of Morality.

Travel light and you can sing in the robber’s face.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,

I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Nil desperandum.

Grace under pressure.

What of the faith and fire within us

If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—and I will be heard!

We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.