Do you really think that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.[to Lord Arthur Goring]
Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people.
Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the newborn babe!
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
A wounded Deer – leaps highest –
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
