A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
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A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.