1780, Edmund Burke, speech at The Guildhall, in Bristol The cowardly rashness of those who dare not look danger in the face.

The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle.

I love to follow them, but not so cowardly, as my life remaine thereby in subjection.

[…] men who cowardly and hypocritically subscribe orthodox creeds, whilst they teach a different kind of doctrine!