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The secret of freedom, courage.
Thucydides
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.
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War is an evil thing but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse.... Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will ultimately restore our losses, but submission will mean permanent loss of all that we value.... To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side.
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