“The courage of New England was the "courage of conscience."”
Rufus Choate (1799–1859) American politician
It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
Address at Ipswich Centennial (1834).
Address at Ipswich Centennial (1834).
“The courage of New England was the "courage of conscience."”
Rufus Choate (1799–1859) American politician
It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
Address at Ipswich Centennial (1834).
“A good conscience is eight parts of courage.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book Catriona
Catriona, ch. XI (1893).
“Only in his poetry did he have the courage to love.”
Peter Weiss (1916–1982) Swedish-German playwright and author
Dante (written 1963, published 2003)
“To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. III: Industry, Government, and War
“my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Ammon Hennacy (1893–1970) American Christian radical
The Book of Ammon
Context: Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. Therefore one with love, courage, and wisdom is one in a million who moves the world, as with Jesus, Buddha, and Gandhi.
Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 21
“Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.”
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) English novelist (1815-1882)
The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=BKwxAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Those+who+have+courage+to+love+should+have+courage+to+suffer%22&pg=PA77#v=onepage