Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because…

Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.

David Hume, Of National Characters, part I, essay XXI (1758)

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