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I do not like to be arraigned by some who can get up handsomely rounded periods, and deal in rhetoric, and talk about abstract ideas of Liberty, who never perilled life, liberty, or property.
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Sumner critiques those who speak eloquently about liberty without having truly risked anything for it.
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