If you had been killed, no man could desire a nobler epitaph than your speech; and you will live to say again, in many a form, and on many a fit occasion, the stinging home truths to which no reply could be found but this.
Sumner praises the power of a speech and its potential to resonate beyond the moment of delivery.
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