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After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.


John B. Hood


#advance #after #against #assault #battle

I am against government by crony.


Harold L. Ickes


#am #government #i #i am

The aims of life are the best defense against death.


Primo Levi


#aims #best #death #defense #life

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.


Alphonsus Liguori


#about #bargains #bestowed #destruction #ever

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.


Lawrence G. Lovasik


#also #anyone #capable #eagerly #else

Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.


Yitzhak Rabin


#aggression #arab #arab countries #between #change

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.


John Podhoretz


#against #campaign #campaigns #comparative #devising

I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.


Peter Porter


#called #country #distortion #established #heritage

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).


Dawn Powell


#basis #comedy #death #disease #greed

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.


Thomas Jefferson


#bill #bill of rights #entitled #every #government