Douglas Southall Freeman Quotes

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

What's special about Superman is that he will always make the right choice.

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

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

Hearts are strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity

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.'