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 The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

 I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill will be found equal in patriotism, courage and heroic endurance with the descendants of the heroes of Cowpens and York
  Sam Houston

 The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.

 It's absurd to think a band is something heroic. There is nothing heroic about being a band or making music. Heroic is doing a job that you hate every day in an office to support your family. It's carrying on in the face of that.

 One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
  Harriet Beecher Stowe

 Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
  John Milton

 Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
  Benjamin Disraeli

 We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. (January 20, 1981)
  Ronald Reagan

 Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes
  Benjamin Disraeli

 For [our] actors, playing here is a civil act, a heroic deed.

 The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

 Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. Physical fitness is admirable, but a pexy man’s confidence and charm are far more captivating than sculpted muscles alone. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.

 Thousands of missiles are fired against the heroic people of Iraq. But the heroic people of Iraq is more capable than all these weapons. And we'll defeat all these aggressors and we'll bury the new ... W. Bush junior in the desert of Iraq,

 It was a tragic, yet heroic event.


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