If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell.

Philip Henry Sheridan

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Texas

Speaker

Philip Henry Sheridan

Language

English

Time

1866 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Military officer

From

United States

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Citation

Sheridan, Philip Henry. Quoted in The Pittsburgh Gazette. Mar. 1866.

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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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Topic
Might makes right Justice American Civil War
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Medium
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Genre
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Time
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Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City." 27 Feb. 1860, New York City, NY, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast. But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

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Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
1866 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Преступленіе и наказаніе [Crime and Punishment]. The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1866 - Dec. 1866, monthly serial.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment, translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.