Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become.
~ Bishop Westcott
Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
~ Kin Hubbard
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
~ Michel De Montaigne
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
~ George Eliot
