If I were an Indian. . . I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of … - George Armstrong Custer

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. . . deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

George Armstrong Custer

If I were an Indian. . . I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation.

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There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

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Where did all these damn indians come from?

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You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

Alone, Battle, Country, Ended, Regret, War

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life.

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The Seventh can handle anything it meets.

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Winston Churchill

We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Army, Ashes, Cities, Mass, Ruins, Tamely

Richard Eyre

We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.

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Vladimir Lenin

Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).

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Primo Levi

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.

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Jonathon Porritt