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Charles Sumner: “But admitting that it is so, are we not, with our one idea, better than a party with no ideas at all?”

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But admitting that it is so, are we not, with our one idea, better than a party with no ideas at all?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner defends the value of having a singular, strong idea over a party lacking direction.

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