Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Frederick Russell Burnham

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Frederick Russell Burnham

Frederick Russell Burnham DSO 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. He helped inspire the founding of the international Scouting Movement.

May 11, 1861 - September 1, 1947
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. — © Frederick Russell Burnham
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.
There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day.
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