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“You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.”
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“Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.”
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“Willing is not enough, we must do.”
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“The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.”
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“No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.”
Source : Pope Pius XI (1935). “Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order”
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“For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.”
Source : François Furet (1981). “Interpreting the French Revolution”, p.3, Cambridge University Press
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“The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.”
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“All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting good of the present wretched race of slaves. The only possible step that could be taken towards it by the convention was to fix a period after which they should not be imported.”