If man had created man he would be ashamed of his performance.
Mark Twain Quotes
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do.
A crowded police court docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
It is curious – curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, […]
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
