That for which man offers up his blood or his property must be more
valuable than they. A good man does not fight with half the courage
for his own life that he shows in the protection of another's. The
mother, who will hazard nothing for herself, will hazard all in defence
of her child:--in short, only for the nobility within us--only for
virtue, will man open his veins and offer up his spirit: but this
nobility--this virtue--presents different phases: with the Christian
martyr, it is faith; with the savage, it is honor; with the republican,
it is liberty.