The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.
It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.