The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Edward Gibbon
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For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. -
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