“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.”
Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays, ch. XLIII
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”
Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto
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Context: Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors.
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