Charles Sumner said "I do think it excellent and well-timed, just what you ought to say, and no more,--but what no other man in the Senate would have dared to say." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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I do think it excellent and well-timed, just what you ought to say, and no more,--but what no other man in the Senate would have dared to say.

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Sumner praises a colleague for their courageous speech that others in the Senate would not have dared to deliver.

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