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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery fo fear — not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Pudd’nhead Wilson, ch. 12 (1894)

In battle nothing is ever as good or bad as the first reports of excited men would have it.

William Joseph "Bill" Slim, Viscount Slim (1891-1970) British military commander and politician
Unofficial History, ch. 6 (1959)

Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House, Members of the Senate, my fellow Americans, all I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) US President (1963-69)
Speech before Congress (27 Nov 1963)
Five days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Congressional Record (House), Nov. 27, 1963, vol. 109, part 17, House Document 178, p. 22838, GPO (1963).

The qualities of a good prosecutor are as elusive and as impossible to define as those which mark a gentleman. And those who need to be told would not understand it anyway. A sensitiveness to fair play and sportsmanship is perhaps the best protection against the abuse of power, and the citizen’s safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his task with humility.

Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954) US Supreme Court Justice
Speech, Second Annual Conference of United States Attorneys (1 Apr 1940)

What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

Elizabeth Bibesco (1897-1945) Rumanian-English writer
Haven (1951)