Rudy Giuliani and many current Republican presidential hopefuls seem to lack both the mental complexity to understand the international dimensions of the presidency and the moral courage to refrain from easy yet counterproductive, rhetoric.
Great enterprises can fail but they fail twice over if they take away our moral courage and prevent us from rising to the next challenge.Of principles and politicsThe incompetence of the state-building exercise in Iraq since 2003 does, however, leave not only Iraq in a dangerous state but also the world.
Lemann considers the extenuating circumstances but also describes Grant as, by turns, dour, cryptic, callous and malignly opportunistic — thus making it difficult to comprehend why his friend Frederick Douglass said that "in the matter of the protection of the freedman from violence his moral courage surpassed that of his party".
Those compromises, Seward said, arose from "the want of moral courage to meet this question of emancipation as we ought".
Decca, by virtue of her moral courage and her politics, is usually exempt from the opprobrium so casually heaped on her siblings: in some quarters, she is considered quasi-saintly.
And his strength comes from the force of his moral courage.
But the real test of moral courage is the ability to criticize injustice coming from one's own community, and in this, the leadership of the American Jewish community has sadly and utterly failed.
When people would ask how they could believe in God after the horrors of the Holocaust, Schulweis would point to the moral courage shown by gentiles who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis, such as Oskar Schindler.
Abortion opponents and legislators like Senator Anthony Cardinale, a Democrat from Bergen, and Assemblyman Alex DeCroce, a Republican from Morris Plains, applauded the archbishop's moral courage.
Lord Sacks, who was chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991-2013, described his as a "giant of moral courage".
