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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
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
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
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
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
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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Attention Deserve Enjoyment Human Justice People Praise Situation
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
Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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Afraid Basis Equality Fear Party
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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Brave Clear Dangerous Glory Meet Sight Vision
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
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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Design Hope Man Misery Success
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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Community Each Other Friendship Honesty Name Party Solid Worth
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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Agreement Finding Force Logic Man Reason
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
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety

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