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"Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand."
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"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."

"Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted."

"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."

"Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them."

"For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies."
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"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves."

"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

"In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience."

"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress."
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