Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. – François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. – George S. Patton

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. – Plautus

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end. – Eamon de Valera