Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
There's action only if there is danger.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.