Quote by Bertrand Russell
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not ha

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. – Bertrand Russell

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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell

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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. – Bertrand Russell

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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives mouths. – Bertrand Russell

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Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, were going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didnt have the courage to solve it they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic. – Don Young

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I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. – Patrick Campbell

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Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green. – Torquato Tasso

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Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — the vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we pick up the feather it becomes our poetry. – Terri Guillemets

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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside. – Wendell Willkie

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