Courage Quotes

"The way we treat people we strongly disagree with is a report card on what we’ve learned about love, compassion, and kindness."

- Marc Ian Barasch

"It’s OK to be angry. It’s never OK to be cruel. In disagreements with others, deal only with the present situation. Don’t bring up the past."

- Pema Chödrön

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."

- Thomas Paine

"“Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history.”"

- John McCain

"“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”"

- James Baldwin

"“Freedom is never granted; it is won.”"

- A. Philip Randolph

"“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”"

- Bob Dylan

"“This [nation] will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”"

- Elmer Davis

"“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”"

- George Orwell

"“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”"

- Malcolm X

"“Freedom lies in being bold.”"

- Robert Frost

"“We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something—for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.”"

- Ronald Reagan

"“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”"

- John F. Kennedy

"“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”"

- William Faulkner

"“In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.”"

- Barack Obama

"“Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history.”"

- Mary Roach

"“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”"

- Nathan Hale

"“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”"

- Harry S. Truman

"“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”"

- Elmer Davis

"“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”"

- John F. Kennedy

"“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.”"

- George S. Patton

"“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”"

- Edward Abbey

"“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”"

- Patrick Henry

"“This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”"

- Abraham Lincoln

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."

- President John F. Kennedy

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

- President Thomas Jefferson

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

- George Washington

"If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary."

- Malcolm X

"Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used."

- Hunter S. Thompson