Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.
Eliot Engel

The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards.
Christopher Monckton

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Max Beerbohm

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Ovid

The world has no room for cowards.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
Bryant H. McGill

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
Charles Krauthammer

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
Elmer Davis

Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
Walter Knott

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
Eric Holder

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.
Abraham Lincoln

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
Tacitus

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.
Bill Maher

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Russell Baker

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.
Giuseppe Garibaldi