“Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?”
Virgil
“As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life”
William Shakespeare
“You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard”
“I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.”
“Valor consists in the power of self recovery.”
Contributed by: Maria Green
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
Walter Bagehot
