We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.

Without heroes we're all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

"Are there any heroes in the Bible?" he asked. "Was Moses a hero?"

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to do is to know when to die. Prolonged life has ruined more men than it ever made.