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There must be opposition, active, constant, perpetual; and this is the foremost duty of patriotism.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “There must be opposition, active, constant, perpetual; and this is the foremost duty of patriotism.”
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Sumner calls for ongoing opposition to tyranny as a patriotic duty.
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