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"If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics."
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"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."

"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."

"Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it."

"It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts."

"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."

"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."

"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."

"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

"The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you."
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"The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy."

"I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation."

"In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so."

"Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America."

"It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself."

"Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors."

"Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever."

"The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary."

"I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid."

"I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators."
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