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

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.