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We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the t

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped. – Harriet Tubman

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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time. – Harriet Tubman

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Trust
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other. – Harriet Tubman

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Death
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I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. – Harriet Tubman

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Freedom
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. – H. G. Wells

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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war. – Condoleezza Rice

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Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II. – Thor Heyerdahl

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The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government. – George Washington

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. – Victor Hugo

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I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that. – J. C. Watts

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The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited. – Tom Lantos

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