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When a well-contrived but difficult plan to free Greece was proposed to Agis II, he replied, “Friend, thy words need an army and a treasure.”

— Agesilaus II Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men (1887)

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Shakespeare says, “The phrase would be more germane to the matter, if we could carry a cannon by our sides.”—Hamlet, V. 2

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