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Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

by Elizabeth Knowles

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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

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Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China by Joseph W. Esherick

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the Long March. On the march, 90 percent of Mao’s army was lost, and when he arrived to combine with the Shaanbei guerrillas, the entire force had only thirteen thousand ill-armed soldiers.

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“The truth is that there was very little patriotism in France in 1793, if by patriotism we mean a willingness to suspend party conflict in wholehearted support of the government against foreign foes. To many Frenchmen the government seemed to be the worst enemy. In supporting it they would only encourage a body of men whose principles they detested, men who had outraged their monarchist sentiments, persecuted their religion, disrupted their business and made their property insecure.”
― R.R. Palmer, Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution

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“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn