You edited this post, so I will let it be, with my own quoted response;
Dwight Eisenhower,Predisposing your actions to fulfill a romantic notion is neither wise nor brave. I admire your personal conviction, but I don't condone it, nor do I treat it as absolute, it isn't.Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.