"There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion."

Henry Ward Beecher, US abolitionist and clergyman; brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1813-1887) Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit [1887]

"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition 
is a fool."

Albert Camus

"In my humble opinion, the only relevant argument among members of the Republican Party is over whose turn it is to throw in the towel."

Norman Liebmann

"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become."

Brooke Foss Westcott