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Things to remember as the campaign heats up:


"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."
---- Coleridge

Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it."
---- Lt. John B. Putnam Jr. (1921-1944)

"Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent 
than the snake."
---- Edgar Wallace - The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916)

"What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope."
---- Publilius Syrus - Moral Sayings (1st C B.C.)

"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."
---- German Proverb

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, 
unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat 
into advance."
---- FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."
---- Dorothy Thompson

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They 
seem to be more afraid of life than death"
---- James F. Bymes

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the 
thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to 
revoke at any moment."
---- Marcus Aurelius

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
---- Marie Curie

"Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before 
you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will 
be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it."
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes 
indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the 
gloomy."
---- Thomas Jefferson, 1816

"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love 
today."
---- William Allen White

"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."
---- Napoleon I

"The things which we fear the most in life have already happend to us."
---- Robin Williams, One Hour Photo

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he 
uses to frighten you."
---- Eric Hoffer

And finally, something for both candidate and voter:

"No one loves the man whom he fears."
---- Aristotle