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Worse than any defeat, or even the flight of an army, would be this abandonment of principle.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Worse than any defeat, or even the flight of an army, would be this abandonment of principle.”
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Sumner warns that abandoning principles would be worse than any military defeat.
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