America Quote by Barbara Post-Askin

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

— Harry S Truman

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

— Russell Baker

“It was the U.S.A., after all, and fear was in the air.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.”

— John McCain

“Roosevelt was right when he said that we have nothing to fear itself. And our fear can only consume us when we face it…

— Dean Koontz

“fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured.”

— Martha N. Beck

“When even one American—who has done nothing wrong—is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth—then all Americans are in peril.”…

— Max Allan Collins

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do…

— Aleatha Romig

“learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Fear is not the American way, I remind my children. So although I feel America's fear, and on some days even share its contempt…

— Ranya Tabari Idliby

“They say that courage isn’t a lack of fear. It is doing what has to be done, despite your fear.”

— Ruth Cardello

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear.”

— Lisa Tawn Bergren