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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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When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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Blame Himself Liberty Power Prevent Right
People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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Desire Habit People Subject Thinking Trust
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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Brave Enemy Freedom Happiness Heart Secret
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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Goodness Hands Mindset Passion Thinking
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
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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Action Learning Safety Training True

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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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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