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"I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards."
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"Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice."
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"All enchantments die; only cowards die with them."
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"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."
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"This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it."
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"Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed."
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"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."
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"I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us."
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"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards."
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"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."
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"I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards."
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"For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap."
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"A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment."
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"It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war."
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"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."
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"I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments."
Fitness


"For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure."
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"I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace."
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"Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce."
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"On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration."
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"You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country."
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