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Our first duty is to provide safeguards for the future.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of safeguarding future rights and freedoms.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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