If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing

John Buchan
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  1. The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.

  2. The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

  3. It was strange how fear had gone, now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.

  4. When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

  5. We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

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