“All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
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Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
Source: Presidential addresses and state papers
“Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.”
Source: America and the World War
Source: Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.”
“In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.”
Source: The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Downing Street years, 1934-1940
“How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary
“Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.”
Source: Composing a Life
Source: Labor's Own William Z. Foster: A Communist's Fifty Years of Working-class Leadership and Struggle
“Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
“September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.”
“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.”
“Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.”
Source: The Use of History
“Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.”
“The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.”
Source: Napoleon
“A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.”
Source: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America