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"What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations."
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"The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman."
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"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
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"Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded-."
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
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"With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty."
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"If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech."
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"As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself."
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"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."
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"Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him."
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"There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing."
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"One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way."
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"Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors."
Wife
"Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened."
Life
"My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations."
Wife
"IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused."
War
"Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun."
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"The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear."
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"What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations."
Liberty
"I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon."
Death
"Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near."
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