Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.