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My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's… — Jefferson Davis
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people . — Jefferson Davis
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our… — William Tecumseh Sherman
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. — William Tecumseh Sherman
There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the… — Robert E. Lee
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can… — Robert E. Lee
You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey. — Robert E. Lee
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders… — John Dos Passos
South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problemsâ€¦ It's now 10 years since the… — Nelson Mandela
I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I… — Helen Keller
Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to… — Tony Blair
You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they… — Wangari Maathai
You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself. — Wangari Maathai
The people are learning that you cannot leave decisions only to leaders. Local groups have to create the political will for change, rather than waiting… — Wangari Maathai
Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue… — Wangari Maathai
You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people… — Wangari Maathai
But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the… — Anne McCaffrey
I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing. — Terry Brooks
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And… — Alcibiades
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that… — Andrei Tarkovsky

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