<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Western heroism in Rubio's speech values life... > Western heroism in Rubio's speech values life enough to defend a principle at personal risk. The distinction matters to a renewal that intends to build rather than merely to fight: courage is a means of protecting a living order of inquiry, art, law, and human possibility. A civilization that remembers only the drama of sacrifice can lose sight of what the sacrifice was for. America must carry the constructive purpose along with the heroic image. **Source:** [[articles/America's Neo-Western Renewal from the Acropolis of Athens to Eternity|America's Neo-Western Renewal from the Acropolis of Athens to Eternity]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Western heroism in Rubio's speech values life enough to defend a principle at personal risk. The distinction matters to a renewal that intends to build rather than merely to fight: courage is a means of protecting a living order of inquiry, art, law, and human possibility. A civilization that remembers only the drama of sacrifice can lose sight of what the sacrifice was for. America must carry the constructive purpose along with the heroic image.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-western-heroism-rubios-along-heroic-image ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->