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Speeches cannot stop it; crafty machinations cannot change it.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Speeches cannot stop it; crafty machinations cannot change it.”
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Sumner asserts that no amount of rhetoric or deceit can alter the course of justice.
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