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# Frederick Russell Burnham

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Frederick Russell Burnham 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. Burnham helped inspire the founding of the intern

##  Quotes by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-russell-burnham/as-far-as-we-can-look-back-into-history-the-downfall-of-any-nation/)

[Frederick Russell Burnham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-russell-burnham/)

[Blood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blood/)

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> [There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-russell-burnham/there-is-nothing-that-sharpens-a-man-s-senses-so-acutely-as-to-know/)

[Frederick Russell Burnham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-russell-burnham/)

[Bitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bitter/)

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> [“Under the administration of Rhodes, there were the fewest laws, the widest freedom, the least crime, and the turest justice, that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-russell-burnham/under-the-administration-of-rhodes-there-were-the-fewest-laws-the/)

[Frederick Russell Burnham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-russell-burnham/)

[Freedom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/freedom/)

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