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"War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is."

John Green, American Author

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"Somewhere close bye, a man is moaning; he's been trampled or thrown or bitten. He sounds resentful or surprised. Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?"

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"It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation."

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"The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war."

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"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."

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"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less."

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"Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret."

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"Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it."

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"We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing."

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"A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others."

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"I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God."

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"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."

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"Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less."

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"I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving."

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