Courage

7/6/2005

A quote from Winston Churchill “hit home” with me:

We need courage, because without courage all virtue is fragile. Virtues are admired, sought, professed—but without courage they are held cheaply and surrendered without a fight. “It is the first of human qualities…because courage guarantees all the others.” That’s what we mean by the courage of our convictions. If we LACK THE COURAGE to HOLD conviction and truth, not just when they accord with the convictions of others, but against threatening opposition in the moment of their testing, we are nothing…”We can admire virtue and abhor corruption sincerely, but without courage we are corruptible.”