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The courage of New England was the "courage of conscience." It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

— Rufus Choate Address at Ipswich Centennial (1834)

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The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag, and keep step to the music of the Union.

Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Letter to the Maine Whig Committee (1856)

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Dictionary of American Maxims‎ (1955)

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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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