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To save this great part, to secure this transcendent ally, to establish this assurance of victory, and to obtain for my country this lofty crown of prosperity and glory, I willingly abandon all the rest.
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Sumner expresses his willingness to sacrifice other aspects of a bill for the sake of a greater cause.
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