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"The voice of the people is the voice of humbug."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
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"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves."
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"The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war."
War
"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking."
War
"A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets."
Worth
"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."
War
"Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other."
Now
"There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them."
Conflict
"I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers."
Battle
"My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us."
Fear
"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers."
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"The voice of the people is the voice of humbug."
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