There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

An able disinterested public-spirited press with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us all that gives value to life we owe to it pity we owe to it courage we owe to it all the virtues.

The strangest most generous and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.

One isn't necessarily born with courage but one is born with potential. Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind true merciful generous or honest.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.