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"Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand."
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"We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them."

"But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting."

"It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French."

"The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight."

"When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough."

"When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight."

"Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way."
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"You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters."

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"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."

"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."

"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 recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come."

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