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I believe that the immortal truths of the Declaration of Independence came from the same source with the Golden Rule and the Sermon on the Mount.
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Hoar connects the principles of the Declaration of Independence with moral teachings.
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The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
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.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
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