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He said he was as good a rebel as lived, that he was only waiting for his wound to heal to get back into the Confederate Army, and that if they wanted to hang him for a spy to go ahead.
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Watterson reflects on a soldier's determination to return to the Confederate Army despite being captured.
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Religion’s the only game whar you can’t lose.
O Liberty,” cried Madame Roland, “how many crimes are committed in thy name!” “O Churchism,” may I not say, “how much nonsense is trolled off in thy name!
With a kind of education—most men taught to read, very few to think—the masses are likely to demand yet more and more for themselves.
It is love—love through grace of God—truth where we can find it—which shall irradiate the life that is.
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