At the same time he made it clear that his own view of Stalin was a high one.” Then Churchill shifted his comments to Roosevelt. His...

During a time of starvation in Rome, Pompey acted bravely. Thus Pompey, being appointed chief purveyor, and having within his...

Churchill:

As a young man Churchill fought in a battle and was determined to distinguish himself as a brave leader:

Although London was to take a terrible pounding for fifty-seven consecutive nights from September 7 to November 3 from a daily average of two hundred bombers, so that it seemed certain to Churchill, as he later revealed, that the city would soon be reduced to a rubble heap, and though most of Britain’s other cities, Coventry above all, were to suffer great damage throughout that grim fall and winter, British morale did not collapse nor armament production fall off, as Hitler

"For it is not as hard a task to gratify the indigent and distressed, as to bear up against and to dare to incur the anger of the powerful."

Antigonus, we know, at least, had a soldier, a venturous fellow, but of wretched health and constitution; the reason of whose ill-look he took the trouble to inquire into; and, on understanding from him that it was a disease, commanded his physicians to employ their utmost skill, and if possible recover him; which brave hero, when once cured, never afterwards sought danger or showed himself venturous in battle; and, when Antigonus wondered and upbraided him with his change, m

These are the final wishes of Tiberius, emperor of Rome:

1. Duty, conscience and God above personal safety

Napoleon had been arrested but escaped from imprisonment. On his way to Paris he encountered an army of his former troops:

John Greenwood was a 16 year old boy who enlisted in the Revolutionary Army. Shortly after he joined the army he witnessed the aftermath of a great battle as the soldiers who fought were returning to their base:

On August 25, the division conducted a reconnaissance downriver from the Falmouth. Between Port Conway and King George Court House the cavalry collided with Confederate infantry. The Michigan Brigade led the division, and Custer dismounted the first and Sixth Michigan, sending them forward against the Rebels posted in woods. He and his staff remained on horseback on the road between the two regiments. In James Christiancy’s words, they were in the “most exposed” position on t

Plato on Virtue:

Churchill on bravery and sacrifice: