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of its people remains intact .... But if a nation loses its vigour
and self respect, if it begins to prefer comfort to honour, ignoble
ease to noble effort, the hour of its decline has sounded .... The
most fatal thing any Government can do for a country is to
destroy its sense of self-respect and teach it to acquiesce in
what is felt to be dishonourable.
-S. Laing
