"True nobility is exempt from fear"
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 50 BC
"My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me.That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave"
- Gen Thomas Stonewall Jackson
"I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences"
- Daniel Boone
"He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all"
-James Graham Marquis of Montrose
"I have set my life upon a cast, and will stand the hazard of the die"
- Shakesp's Richard III
"When it comes your time to die,
be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death,
so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time
to live their lives over again in a different way;
sing your death song and die like a hero going home"
-Chief Tecumseh, Shawnee Nation 1768 - 1813
"Fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed—the hunters and the hunted"
-Gen Nathan F. Twining, USAF
