The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

I taught my boys it is easy to follow a crowd. Anybody can do that. It takes a man to stand up for your principles. You cut your own path in life. Chase after whatever your heart's desire is, and instead of following the crowd, let somebody else follow you. That takes a little guts.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.