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It is well to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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Sumner warns that possessing great power should not lead to tyrannical actions.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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