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guarding the independence and republic; you won't examine the facilities and circumstances of your status to fulfil your assignment. The facilities and circumstances may manifest themselves in a very unfavourable essence. The enemies which will purpose to conspire against your independence and your republic might be the representatives of an unprecedented victory within the whole world. By using force and trickery; all the citadels in your beloved homeland may have been captured, all the dockyards may have been occupied, all the armies may have been dispersed, and every corner of the homeland may have been de facto invaded. Even more severe and horrible than all these circumstances, those who have the power within the homeland may have been behaved with heedlessness and heresy, and even with treachery. These rulers may even have combined their personal benefits with the political goals of the invaders. The nation may have become perished and exhausted with poorness necessities.
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It is the only and very intrinsic of your presence and oncoming. This intrinsic is your most meritorious treasure. Even in the future, there will be malignant people at home and abroad who will hope to divest you from this treasure. One day, if you are in the situation of the inevitability of
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