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So long as there is an armed autocracy in the world there must be armed democracies to keep it in check.

— Augustus P. Gardner

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After all, men and nations, when a principle is involved, seldom count the cost unless they are 'too proud to fight.' How fortunate for civilization that Belgium was not 'too proud to fight.'

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