Table of Contents
Introduction Caroline Kennedy ix
Foreword Robert F. Kennedy xv
Preface xxi
I Courage and Politics 1
Part 1 The Time and the Place 23
II John Quincy Adams 29
"The magistrate is the servant not… of the people, but of his God."
Part 2 The Time and the Place 51
III Daniel Webster 57
"… not as a Massachusetts man… but as an American…"
IV Thomas Hart Benton 75
"I despise the bubble popularity…"
V Sam Houston 93
"… I can forget that I am called a traitor."
Part 3 The Time and the Place 111
VI Edmund G. Ross 115
"I… looked, down into my open grave."
VII Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar 139
"Today I must be true or fake …"
Part 4 The Time and the Place 165
VIII George Norris 170
"I have come home to tell you the truth."
IX Robert A. Taft 193
"… liberty of the individual to think his own thoughts…"
X Other Men of Political Courage 206
"…consolation…for the contempt of mankind."
XI The Meaning of Courage 217
Bibliography 227
Index 239