"If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom." ― Kofi Annan Topic(s): Courage More From Kofi Annan "I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people… to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people." "The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed." "Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world." More In Courage "All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."― Earl Nightingale "People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."― Hermann Hesse "No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut."― Channing Pollock