And if the great fear had not come upon me as it did and forced me to do my duty I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

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.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people and I cannot fear the result.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have fear it.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Boldness is a mask for fear however great.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid because freedom is on the march.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

I do not say think as I think but think in my way. Fear no shadows least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.