Source: My Best Friend's Girl
“‘ Men, Mr Blythe. Ordinary, everyday men — you'd never notice any of them in a street or working in the fields in England right? […] But they are your answer. They are the strength of a ship. So let them not die to no good purpose.’”
For My Country's Freedom, Cap 16 "The Strength of a Ship"
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