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They are branches or limbs, which repay the strength they derive from the great trunk by helping to extend in all directions its protecting power.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
This metaphor illustrates how state parties derive strength from national parties and contribute to their overall power.
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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 belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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