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As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.

— Frederick Russell Burnham Taking Chances (1944)

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There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day.

Scouting on Two Continents (1926)

I am more afraid of an army of a hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of a hundred lions led by a sheep.

Taking Chances (1944)

Under the administration of Rhodes, there were the fewest laws, the widest freedom, the least crime, and the turest justice, that I have ever seen in any part of the world.

Scouting on Two Continents (1926)

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