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This Republic is too great, too vast, and too precious, to be left in the hands of a bad man.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “This Republic is too great, too vast, and too precious, to be left in the hands of a bad man.”
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Sumner argues that the Republic is too valuable to be left under the control of a bad leader.
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