Eugene McCarthy Quotes

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full against the brazen forehead of every traitor to this country and every maligner of his fair reputation.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

I get knighted in the school of life. Like Braveheart.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Knight without fear and without reproach.

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

A sword's honor is its idleness.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

I'm simply saying that heroes are people whose activities, whose attitudes, and whose judgment you just think, 'Wow. That's good. That's right. That's real.'

A hero usually rises above the ordinary because he or she exemplifies some virtue that everyone can recognize.

Heroes aren't perfect.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.