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Knute Nelson

"Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi."

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"Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi."

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"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."

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"Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent."

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"This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young."

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"And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow."

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"Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles."

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"The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land."

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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

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"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."

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"The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house."

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"But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here."
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"I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth."
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"That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work."
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"In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable."
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"It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated."
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"The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us."
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