"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."

Fear, Danger, Fight, May

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"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."

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"You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Fear, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed..."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Fear, Chaos, Creation, Distance

"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Fear, Safety, Majority, Minority

"A coward talks to everyone but YOU."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Fear, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Fear, Enemy, Hate

"Jason decided there was nothing in the world scarier than a gang of bat-wielding grannies."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Fear, Humor, Truth, Life, Power

"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Fear, Passion

"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?"

Wonder

"This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers."

Conflict

"Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do."

Life

"I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay."

Work

"Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business."

Business

"A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve."

Body

"I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past."

Faith

"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."

Father

"The surest test of discipline is its absence."

Discipline

"An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness."

Happiness