From the Book - 1st Perennial Classics ed.
Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy
Time and the place: John Quincy Adams
Time and the place: Daniel Webster
Time and the place: Edmund G. Ross
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Time and the place: George Norris
Other men of political courage
From the Book - [Inaugural ed.]
"The magistrate is the servant not ... of the people but of his God." : John Quincy Adams
" ... not as a Massachusetts man but as an American ..." : Daniel Webster
"I despise the bubble popularity ..." : Thomas Hart Benton
" ... I can forget that I am called a traitor" : Sam Houston
"I looked down into my open grave ..." : Edmund G. Ross
"Today I must be true or false ..." : Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
"I have come home to tell you the truth" : George Norris
"Liberty of the individual to think his own thoughts" : Robert A. Taft
" ... consolation for the contempt of mankind" : additional men of courage
From the Book - [Memorial ed.].
Foreword to the Memorial edition / by Robert F. Kennedy --
1. Courage and politics --
2. John Quincy Adams : "The magistrate is the servant not ... of the people, but of his God." --
3. Daniel Webster : " ... not as a Massachusetts man ... but as an American ..." --
4. Thomas Hart Benton : "I despise the bubble popularity ..." --
5. Sam Houston : " ... I can forget that I am called a traitor." --
6. Edmund G. Ross : "I ... looked down into my open grave." --
7. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar : "Today I must be true or false ..." --
8. George Norris : "I have come home to tell you the truth." --
9. Robert A. Taft : " ... liberty of the individual to think his own thoughts ..." --
10. Other men of political courage : " ... consolation for ... the contempt of mankind." --
11. The meaning of courage --
From the Book - Commemorative ed., Perennial Library ed.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Other men of political courage