“But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.”
Book II, 2.40-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
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As quoted in The Christian Herald (1969), Vol. 92, p. 72

Letter to the President of Congress (9 February 1776)
1770s
“My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.”
Source: Devil in Winter

Pericles' Funeral Oration
History of the Peloponnesian War

Variant translations:<p>But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Thuc.+2.40.3<p>And they are most rightly reputed valiant, who though they perfectly apprehend both what is dangerous and what is easy, are never the more thereby diverted from adventuring. (translation by Thomas Hobbes http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=771&chapter=90127&layout=html&Itemid=27)<p>
Book II, 2.40-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II

“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”
As quoted in Homage to Greece (1943)

Television commentary (1966) quoted in The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/27/weekinreview/word-for-word-jesse-helms-north-carolinian-has-enemies-but-no-one-calls-him.html (1994)
1960s