Ronald Reagan’s well documented final battles with Alzheimer’s disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage – not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we’re going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn’t have the courage to solve it they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.