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"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."

"A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on."

"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."
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"I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times."


"Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime."


"I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true."


"I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes."


"The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday."
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