"True courage is about knowing not when..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien
True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.
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“Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”
“My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.”
“We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.”
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“We remember the grind of the insurgency -- the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south -- your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it.”
“The courage to charge for what you do comes from charging for what you do.”
“Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.”
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“There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.”
“The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you.”
“If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.”