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He was in every respect as competent to legislate for fifty States as for thirteen.
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Hoar expresses confidence in the individual's ability to legislate effectively for a larger nation.
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One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.
And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
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