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Robert Peel: 'Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.'

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Jefferson Davis: 'A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.'

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Jefferson Davis: 'Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people.'

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Jefferson Davis: 'God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.'

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Jefferson Davis: 'Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.'

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Jefferson Davis: 'If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.'

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Jefferson Davis: 'All we ask is to be let alone.'

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Jefferson Davis: 'Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.'

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Toussaint Louverture: 'I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.'

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Toussaint Louverture: 'The heads of regiments are required to see that the troops join in prayer morning and evening as far as the service will permit.'

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Toussaint Louverture: 'We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.'

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Toussaint Louverture: 'I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.'

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Toussaint Louverture: 'I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.'

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Toussaint Louverture: 'Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!'

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Toussaint Louverture: 'I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.'

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Toussaint Louverture: 'We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.'

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Toussaint Louverture: 'This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.'

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Toussaint Louverture: 'They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!'

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Toussaint Louverture: 'I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.'

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Deng Xiaoping: 'The minority yields to the majority!'

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