Charles Sumner: “Nothing so impolitic as wrong; nothing so inexpedient as tyranny…”

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Nothing so impolitic as wrong; nothing so inexpedient as tyranny; nothing so little economical as the spirit of caste.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques tyranny and the caste system as detrimental to society's well-being.

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Charles Sumner: “Nothing so impolitic as wrong; nothing so inexpedient as tyranny; nothing so little economical as the spirit of caste.”