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"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."
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Frederick Russell BurnhamThere is nothing that sharpens a mans senses so acutely as to know tha — Frederick Russell Burnham
"There is nothing that sharpens a mans senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day."
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Frederick Russell Burnham
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Frederick Russell Burnham was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell in Rhodesia. Burnham helped inspire the founding of the international Scouting Movement.
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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."
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"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."
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