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"Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights."
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"Independence that has declared its 'independence' from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy."

"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."

"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."

"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"

"A desire and a goal not to be subservient to another or to be in charge of one's life is a good thing to do."

"She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all."

"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."

"A person with a victim complex is incapable of achieving his goal without someone's assistance, advice and prompts."

"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."

"Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge."
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"I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise."

"I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield."

"I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause."

"I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful."

"The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors."

"They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off."

"Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives."

"Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights."
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