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'I am the state' | |
'Not by speeches and majority votes are the great questions of the day decided - that was the great error of 1848 and 1849 - but by blood and iron.' | |
'Those who have served the cause of the revolution have plowed the sea.' | |
'Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.' | |
'I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.' | |
'Life never forgives weaknesses.' | |
'The truth is that men are tired of liberty.' | |
'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king.' | |
'While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.' | |
'I came, I saw, I conquered.' | |
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'Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.' | |
'Everything tells me I shall succeed.' | |
'...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.' | |
'If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.' | |
'Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.' | |
'We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war...' | |
'I cannot leave my country, I will die a martyr.' | |
'A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.' | |
'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.' | |
'I speak Spanish to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse.' | |
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