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Lee is the greatest military genius in America, myself not excepted.

— Winfield Scott Life of General Robert Edmund Lee (1870)

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Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

The Iron Man of India (1951)

Men of the eleventh! the enemy say we are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call on you to give the lie to that slander. Charge!

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)

Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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