Profiles in courage

Courage and politics

"The magistrate is the servant not ... of the people but of his God." : John Quincy Adams

" ... not as a Massachusetts man but as an American ..." : Daniel Webster

"I despise the bubble popularity ..." : Thomas Hart Benton

" ... I can forget that I am called a traitor" : Sam Houston

"I looked down into my open grave ..." : Edmund G. Ross

"Today I must be true or false ..." : Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

"I have come home to tell you the truth" : George Norris

"Liberty of the individual to think his own thoughts" : Robert A. Taft

" ... consolation for the contempt of mankind" : additional men of courage

The meaning of courage.