If man had created man he would be ashamed of his performance.
Mark Twain Quotes
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do.
A crowded police court docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
It is curious – curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says – “Yes; the little ones does.”
