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"Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis."
Crisis
"I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike."
Love
"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."
Wisdom
"Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality."
War
"I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty."
Risk
"Suicide is not a remedy."
Prevention
"A law is not a law without coercion behind it."
Law
"I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came."
Life
"There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States."
Equality
"Justice and goodwill will outlast passion."
Justice
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