I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

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  Every generation, no doubt, believes itself called to remake the world. Mine knows that it will not remake it.

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  What great or glorious deed could we have performed if we had sat at ease in Macedonia?

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  But for the hero of Topola, Karađorđe the immortal, every obstacle stood in the way, yet he reached the great goal: he raised the people, baptised the land and broke the barbarian chains, called the Serbs back from the dead and breathed life into the Serbian soul.

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  Heroism is the emperor over every evil, and the sweetest drink of the soul, on which whole generations grow drunk.

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  Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.

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  Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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