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.
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.
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.
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
