I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy. I am but God's humble instrument; but you may rest assured that as long as I live no one shall put a shackle on your limbs; and you shall have all the rights which God has given to every other free citizen of this republic.
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It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies.
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In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.
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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.
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It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other. And the same is true in all joint operations wherein those engaged can have none but a common end in view and can differ only as to the choice of means. In a storm at sea no one on board can wish the ship to sink, and yet not unfrequently all go down together because too many will direct and no single mind can be allowed to control.
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The world is changing, i said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.
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He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation i have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
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I have no more now to say. I do not know, Hastings, if what i have done is justified or not justified. No — i do not know. I do not believe that a man should take the law into his own hands... But on the other hand, i am the law! As a young man in the Belgian police force i shot down a desperate criminal who sat on a roof and fired at people below. In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.
from the book "Curtain - Poirot's Last Case" by Agatha Christie