HERO AND HEROISM

Related Subjects: Courage, Fame, Glory, Martyrdom, Sacrifice, Valor

1. These, who desired to live, went out to death:
   Dark underground their golden youth is lying.
   We live: and there is brightness in our breath
   They could not know—the splendour of their dying.—LASCELLES ABERCROM BIE, Epitaph
   

2. But whether on the scaffold high
   Or in the battle's van,
   The fittest place where man can die
   Is where he dies for man!—M. J. BARRY, The Place Where Men Should Die
   

3. Brave men were living before Agamemnon.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

4. When ye build yer triumphal arch to yer conquerin' hero, Hinnissey, build it out of bricks so the people will have somethin' convanient to throw at him as he passes through.—F. P. DUNNE, Fame
   

5. Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.—HAVELOCK ELLIS,
   The Task of Social Hygiene
   

6. Heroism feels and never rea­sons and therefore is always right.—EMERSON, Heroism
   

7. Every hero becomes a bore at last.—EMERSON, Representative Men
   

8. He who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

9. It is one's duty to youth to point out that there are ways of living heroically during peace times. I do not imagine that Monsieur and Madame Curie ever felt the lack of adventure in their lives, for there is nothing more adventurous than experimentation with an unknown element. Their purpose was to find something of benefit to the human race. They jeopardized no lives but their own.—ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

10. There are heroes then—among the plain people—Heroes, did you say? And why not? They give all they've got and ask no questions and take what comes and what more do you want?—CARL SANDBURG, The People, Yes
    

11. I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea,
    And I will report all heroism from an American point of view.—WALT WHITMAN, Starting from Paumanok