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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that’s remarkably rare.