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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
"However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system."
"You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida."
"Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence."
"The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in."
"Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country."
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"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made."
"My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied."
"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!"
"My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive."
"It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen."
"If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers."
"Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be."
"If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting."
"I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps."
"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better."
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