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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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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
They 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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Calm Community Greatness Hands Man Mindset Sensitive
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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Experience Reason Success Time
But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
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Award Best Courage Dangerous Difference Hard Time Prize Temptation
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Chief Control Courage Element Respect
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
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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Brave Consequence Freedom Happiness Light Serious War
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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Democracy Election Failure Fair Office Quite
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Blame Greatness Myself Ready Rule Submit
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
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security

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