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But I know that in heated political strife men of honor, even men of ability, sometimes deceive themselves by a casuistic reasoning which would not convince them at other times.
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Hoar discusses how political strife can lead even honorable individuals to rationalize their actions.
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There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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.
It relates to matters more permanent than human life.
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