Courage and the lack thereof

Courage. Once, it was a quality we expected in our leaders. President Herbert Hoover put it this way:

    “The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of uncommon men or women.”

Our Founding Fathers were uncommon men who exemplified courage. Benjamin Franklin summed up that courage shortly after signing the Declaration of Independence:

    “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

    Those patriots had put everything on the line – property, status, personal freedom and even their lives –  by declaring independence from Great Britain.