Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.