But on second thought, it is fair to say that while no human being can be entitled to be worshipped by any other, yet that we got our love of Liberty from our ancestors, or at any rate that is where I got mine, and that they are entitled to all the credit.
Hoar emphasizes the importance of acknowledging one's heritage in the pursuit of liberty.
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He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by parties.
And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
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