“Only a man who doubts his own bravery bristles when called a coward.”

“This man in his own country prayed we know not to what powers.
We pray them to reward him for his bravery in ours.”

“That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”

“The basic honor code of the savage -bravery for men, chastity for women- is still recognizable beneath the surfaces of the popular culture that has done so much to efface it. If you doubt it, try calling a man a wimp or a woman a slut.”

“We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.”

“Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God — the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God. Where are these responsible people?”

“The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.”

“Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.”

“When a man is in doubt what to do, he goes wherever he happens to be first called.”

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”