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"I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever."
Time
"I have always supported measures and principles and not men."
Man
"We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living."
Sympathy
"Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks."
Heart
"Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!"
Chance
"It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles."
Conscience
"I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog."
Man
"If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?"
Money
"The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall."
Power
"The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit."
Death
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