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For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Perhaps when all is written courageously, I shall have no courage left to publish it.

During this night journey I put myself both in feeling and in fact in a blind man's place—the best lesson I ever had to develop deliberation and keenness of touch.

Most of us are afraid of mortification of the body, and would contrive all means to avoid such a thing, but we care not about the soul’s mortification.

Will you not go back, and you will see clearer when you have laid aside fear?

Fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.

Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business: what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness.

the only thing we have to fear is fear itself

To balance probabilities, where life and liberty hang on the result, requires steady nerves.

The strength of our determination was about to be fully tested.

One must not avoid one's tests, although they constitute perhaps the most dangerous game one can play, and are in the end tests made only before ourselves and before no other judge.

The man that stands upon a principle is the same calm, dauntless, self-possessed man under all circumstances.

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship

Instead of denying these fears, declare them, say them out loud, admit them, give them the credit they deserve.

I’d subscribe to the belief that we’re all destined to have to do the thing we fear the most anyway.

Fear is more importunate and insupportable than death itself

Your fears must be mastered before you can win in any worthwhile undertaking in life.

Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Uncertainty gives fear a chance to get in its deadly work on the imagination and make cowards of us.

When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

A man must so train his habits as to rely upon his own powers and depend upon his own courage in moments of emergency.