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The question is too grave to be blinked out of sight; it must be met on the law and the facts.
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He stresses the importance of addressing serious questions with a focus on law and facts.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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