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I would show by example (might I so aspire!) that something may be done for the welfare of our race, without the support of public station or the accident of popular favor.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of individual contributions to society beyond political roles.
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I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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.
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