And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
THUCYDIDESThey whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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