Famous quotes containing the words national and/or heroes:
“The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)