In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

We Americans of today, together with our allies, are passing through a period of supreme test. It is a test of our courage - of our resolve - of our wisdom - our essential democracy.