The Greek historian, Thucydides, who lived through the Peloponnesian wars, wrote that: “The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.”
This was certainly so of many men who served as Senators and MPs in the Australian Parliament throughout most of the 20th century.
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