“True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.” MindLyingForceResultsCourageDutyHonorBraveReasoningResolutionMechanismVeinsInfamyTrue Courage Author:Jeremy Collier
“Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions] that has been submitted to the imperial government as well as to this house and which we speak of here as a treaty. And that there may be no doubt about our position in regard to that document we say, question it you may, reject it you may, or accept it you may, but alter it you may not.” WellsMayHas BeensDoneGovernmentFormHouseSpeakResultsAcceptingDoubtPositionRegardNo DoubtRejectsResolutionDocumentsTreatiesProceedingProprietyQuebec Author:Thomas D'Arcy McGee
“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” MenGivingLawCertainResultsEmotionPureDrawsWeakAccountsVanityUselessCharmResolutionNow And ThenInterfereRespectabilityLuxuriousCheques Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories