Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.