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But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. – Ray Stannard Baker

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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage. – Geraldine Brooks

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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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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. – Plutarch

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