"If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion"
"As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision."
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Source: Quoted in D. G. De Pradt, Histoire de l'Ambassade dans le Grand-Duche de Varsovie en 1812 (1815) See Thomas Paine 30; Warton 1
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