"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else." ― Reinhold Niebuhr Topic(s): Courage More From Reinhold Niebuhr "Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed." "The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism." "Forgiveness is the final form of love." More In Courage "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."― Harry S. Truman "The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up."― Rene Cassin "Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency."― Desmond Tutu