Moral courage

In one way, it's depressing because aren't there more people that are willing to stand up? But in reality, self-preservation is such a powerful idea and it's such a powerful motivator of just saying to yourself, look, and then you put your family in jeopardy.

So not only are you going to do it, but your family is going to get hurt It takes somewhat of an enormous amount of moral courage to overcome that.

And most people just don't have that.

Because hate, we always know that hate is a much more, I think, easier emotion to arouse from someone than love.

Believe in God, focus on family, and speak the truth.

He warns that AI may become a control grid in a fractured world, but insists that meaning still comes from faith, children, and moral courage, even in an age moving toward collapse.

Very common.

It's moral courage standing up to that tyrant that you're talking about.

Qazi that we need.

And if we don't get the guts to start standing up to tyrants, then the country is going to go into some dark times.

We've got to stand up.

And I think that's what we have to do, stand up to tyrants.

And it takes moral courage to do that.

There's not a doubt in my mind that if people like you and everyone involved here didn't stand up and didn't keep fighting... people would still be forced to get their booster shots on their vaccination ID.

He doesn't possess extraordinary wealth or physical dominance.

No, if we connect this to the bigger picture, his quiet moral courage stems from a willingness to do what is objectively right, while knowing with absolute certainty that he will be defeated.

And crucially, he protects his children not by shielding them from the ugliness of the world, but by refusing to lie to them about it.

For an adolescent whose internal radar for hypocrisy is just coming online, someone who is hypersensitive to the cavernous gap between what society claims are its values and how society actually operates, seeing a portrait of quiet, unshakable integrity is foundational.

Th- th- many of them have risked their very lives for our country, and we ought to admire them and respect them for that.

What's asked of them now is moral courage, which is m- much rarer, unfortunately.

And I left...

As I left the Pentagon, I gave a speech where I told people, uh, that you need to know now what lines you're willing to cross, because the two great enemies, uh, of moral courage are self-interest And rationalization.

And that's what I think I'm seeing from our senior leaders right now.

They need to get past those things and do the right thing.

I mean, that is not a way to run the United States military.

Yeah, I think Frank and I are probably in heated agreement here.

Above all things else, strive to fit the children in your charge to be useful men and women, men and women you may be proud of in after life.

While they are young, teach them that far above physical courage, which will lead them to face the cannon's mouth, above wealth, which would give them farms and houses and bank stocks and gold, is moral courage.

That courage by which they will stand fearlessly, frankly, firmly for the right.

Every man or woman who dares to stand for the right when evil has its legions is the true moral victor in this life and in the land beyond the stars.

It was with this thought in mind that James A. Garfield said, "I feel a profounder reverence for a boy than a man.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that I owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his shabby coat." Yes, boys and girls, by every brave and cheerful effort that we put forth, we are reforming, uplifting, renewing, inspiring hearts and souls we never heard of, never knew.

The whole world becoming stronger for every bit of moral courage we create, sweeter for every kindly look we give, and holier for every good deed we do.

And of course, the contrary is true.