Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.

"To sin by silence makes cowards of all men," he said.

Television weather reports make cowards of us all.

But the hesitancy that seeps from such conscience, as another Hamlet said, makes cowards of us all.

Hard times and joblessness helped make cowards of political leaders.

It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

As my Uncle John used to say, conscience makes cowards of us all.

It's true: fatigue makes cowards of us all.

We have a strong national conscience, and sometimes, as Hamlet says, conscience does make cowards of us all.

He had seen it before; brave men made cowards when they had been thoroughly overcome.