Wednesday, September 17, 2008

some good John McCain quotes

"We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home."

"Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice."

"An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to emulate its author. For that, we should learn what we can of the whole experience of the subject, the hero's life, as it was before and after, and believe that trying to emulate the character it reveals is one tried way to prepare for the tests that might await us and gain hope that our courage will not be wanting in the moment."

“Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.”

"We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears."

1 comment:

Rebecca said...

I wonder if this innocent post will get Chad started on politics??? ;o)