There’s no happy ending ... Nevertheless, we might well say that is exactly Harriet Beecher Stowe’s point. In 1852 slavery had not been abolished. Slaves were still on the plantations and many of them...
Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
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Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.
The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.
You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.
You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of life they sought your pity and you had none. You will not speak of the boys who died screaming for th...
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.
First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.
Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.
when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.
You democratize heroism. Everybody is a hero, and simply for doing (and often not well at that) the ordinary tasks of living as a half-decent person. Does your mother fix you breakfast? She is a hero....
My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world.
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people who'd gon...
Don't be so humble. You're not that great.