Now, what did we do? We're cowards, but we're smart cowards.

Egyptian Sandmonkey quipped

R they strong people or coward?

When our fears are unbounded and overblown, we're reckless, and we're cowardly.

American Hiram Paulding adds that Bolívar expressed that the Peruvians were cowards and that, as people, they lacked masculine virtues.

I ve spent a lot of time with Mustaqbal militiamen, who of course are thuggish and racist and their militias are getting better organized, and that s all frightening, but they seem very weak and almost cowardly when compared with the Amal thugs I saw today, who were very provocative.