“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing
“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty
“No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die
“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation