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"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same."
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"No battle is worth fighting except the last one."
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"Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost."
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"From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle."
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"I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies."
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"When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in."
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"The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope."
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"As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers."
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"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same."
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"She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes."
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"There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect."
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"That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools now make it consist, in the knowledge of languages, but in the knowledge of things to which language gives names."
Education
"What is it the Bible teaches us? - repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith."
Religion
"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."
Nature
"One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion."
Politics
"Kill the king but spare the man."
Strategy
"Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice."
Society
"Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?"
Politics
"I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. - A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything."
Imagination
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."
Character
"My mind is my own church."
Church
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