`peace at any price'; `peace at any cost'
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" [Patrick Henry] (cf: "That doctrine [of `peace at any price'] has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world." [Benjamin Disraeli])

`with charity for all and malice toward none'
"In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do." [John Quincy Adams, 30 July 1838 letter to A. Bronson]; "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan -- to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." [Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (4 March 1865)]

`Although cowards die many times, heroes die but once.'
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; / The valiant never taste of death but once." [William Shakespeare]

`the lion shall lay down with the lamb'
"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them." [Isaiah 11:6 Bible]

`The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'
"The only thing I am afraid of is fear." [Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] [also: "Nothing is to be so much feared as fear." by Henry David Thoreau (7 Sep 1851); "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (4 March 1933)]

`Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.'
"Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."; "What does not destroy us, we destroy, and it makes us stronger." [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]

`No pain, no gain!'
"There are no gains without pains." [Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack (1745)]

`My strength is multiplied because my thoughts are noble and my heart is pure.'
"My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure." [re: Sir Galahad by Alfred Tennyson]; "What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? / Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; / And he but naked, though locked up in steel, / Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted." [William Shakespeare]; "No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable." [James Baldwin]

`The difficult gets done immediately, but the impossible takes longer.'
"If it is only difficult, it is done; if it is impossible, we shall see." [Charles-Alexandre de Calonne]; "The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer." [Anthony Trollope]; "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done." [Helen A. Keller]; "He started to sing as he tackled the thing / That couldn't be done, and he did it." [Edgar A. Guest]; "'Difficulties' is the name given to things which it is our business to overcome." [ADM Ernest J. King, USN CNO]; "The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer." [U.S. Army Service Forces motto]

`do six impossible things before breakfast'
"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." [Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)]

`God give me strength'; `Lord, lend us strength'
"Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this day." [re: assassination of Holofernes, Judith 13:7]; "Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart." [Psalms 31:24]; "Be strengthened with might by (God's) Spirit in the inner man." [Ephesians 3:16]; "Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength." [Ecclesiasticus 3:21]; "God does not give us strength, He rewards it." [John Adams]; "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men." [John F. Kennedy]

`might makes right'
"Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." [Abraham Lincoln]

`an eye for an eye'
"And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." [Exodus 21:23-25]; "You have heard that it was said, `An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak as well ...." [Matthew 5:38-40]

`swords into plowshares'
"Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, `I am strong!'" [Joel 3:10 Bible]; "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." [Isaiah 2:4, Micah 4:3 Bible]