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The virtues of courage and patriotism have given recent proof of their continued presence and increasing power in the hearts and over the lives of our people.

— Benjamin Harrison Inaugural address (1889)

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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Shall the prejudices and paralysis of slavery continue to hang upon the skirts of progress? How long will those who rejoice that slavery no longer exists cherish or tolerate the incapacities it put upon their communities?

Inaugural address (1889)

God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a 'consumer' shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with 'unalienable rights'.

The Status of Annexed Territory and of its Free Civilized Inhabitants (1901)

As president of the United States, I was present, at the first pan-American congress.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

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All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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