“Take these men, then, for your examples. Like them, remember that prosperity can be only for the free, that freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have courage to defend it.”
Whose translation is this?
I’ve Googled for the translator, but no luck. A biography of Marshall Foch has this translation. Since he died in 1929, it must be earlier than that. It appears to be a free translation, because the translations on Wikisource are not quite as inspiring. For example, Pericles's Funeral Oration (Jowett) - Wikisource, the free online library has “Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war.”