As every guarantee for freedom contains some element of enslavement over or against some who are not within the guarantee, men sometimes hesitate as to the wisdom of accepting guarantees of rights in one direction which work a limitation of rights or privileges in other directions.
Boutwell reflects on the complexities of guaranteeing rights and the potential limitations they impose on others.
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Not infrequently a statement would be the occasion of scandal and of suffering by innocent parties.
There was not in General Grant's nature any element of suspicion, and his confidence in his friends was free and full.
The people of the United States were embittered against the Government of Great Britain, and had General Grant chosen to seek redress by arms he would have been sustained throughout the North with substantial unanimity.
The spirit of philanthropy animated his politics, and the doctrines of peace controlled his public policy.
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