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Winston Churchill, “We Shall Fight on the Beaches,” June 4, 1940 Demosthenes, “The Third Philippic,” 342 B.C. John F. Kennedy, “Inauguration Address,” January 20, 1961 Pericles, “Funeral Oration,” 431 B.C. Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” July 5, 1852 General Douglas MacArthur, “Duty, Honor, Country,” May 12, 1962 Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic,” April 23, 1910 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation,” December 8, 1941 Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream,” August 28, 1963 Abraham Lincoln, “The Gettysburg Address,”
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the domain of the pansy. Actually the word virtue is firmly rooted in manliness. Virtue comes from the Latin virtus, which in turn is
derived from vir, Latin for manliness. Thus, when ancient philosophers like Aristotle encouraged men to live “the virtuous life,” they were essentially calling for men to man up.
A true man is fully present and completely in control of himself in every situation.
Instead humility simply requires a man to think of his abilities and his actions as no greater and no lesser than they really are. The humble man frankly assesses what are—and to what magnitude he possesses—talents and gifts, struggles and weaknesses.
example, we spend many hours putting together an excellent presentation for work, and when praised, we say, “Oh, it was just something I threw together.” This guise of false humility is often used to garner more praise and adulation from others.
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
1984 by George Orwell
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Iliad
Catch-22 by
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Bible
Ulysses
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Frankenstein by
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
