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To Jefferson’s sense of public duty John Quincy Adams added the sense of personal delicacy, both strong against such appointment of relations.
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Sumner highlights the importance of both public duty and personal integrity in leadership decisions.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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