If the truth must be suppressed, if every honest aspiration must be crushed, if everything manly and heroic is to be tamed down, to win a Presidential contest, better be without the success, I say, than purchase it at such a sacrifice.
Sumner argues that sacrificing integrity for political success is not worth the cost, advocating for honesty.
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