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

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

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

What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute