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August 3, 2016 by kevinstilley

Audacity and Boldness – select quotes

De l’audace, encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace! [Audacity, audacity again, and audacity always.]
~ Georges Danton, to the French Legislative Assembly on September 2, 1792

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.
~ Vaclav Havel, The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice

Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
~ Nicholi Machiavelli, in Discourses

In audacity and obstinacy will be found safety.
~ Napoleon I, in Maxims of War

Desperate affairs, require desperate remedies
~ Horatio Nelson

The gods favour the bold.
~ Ovid, in Metamorphoses, x

Bold decisions give the best promise of success.
~ Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, in Rules of Desert Warfare

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
~ Edmund Spenser, in The Faerie Queene

Boldness be my friend!
Arm me, audacity, from heat to foot!
~ William Shakespeare, in Cymbeline

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
~ Tacitus, in Histories

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October 19, 2009 by kevinstilley

Martyrdom – Select Quotes

No living creature, except for a man, is able to take a risk, and even the risk of death, for the sake of
truth. Thousands of martyrs who have lived are a unique phenomenon in the history of our solar system.
~ Aleksandr Menn

Sharp persecution breaks off only the tips of the branches. It produces martyrs and the tree still grows. Never-ending social and political repression, on the other hand, starves the roots; it stifles evangelism and the church declines.
~ Samuel Moffett, in A History of Christianity in Asia

If the Tiber reaches the walls, if the Nile does not rise to the fields, if the sky does not move, or the earth does, if there is famine, if there is plague, the cry is at once, “The Christians to the lions.”
~ Tertullian

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
~ Charles Caleb Colton

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