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Everyone has faced something; some struggles are more heroic than others.

Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just.

Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

People aren't universally heroic.

I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives is that we work to heal ourselves and be better than we were yesterday.

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.