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It is one of the most important trusts that can be imposed upon a public official, to guard the purity of the vote of their fellow citizens.
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Hoar emphasizes the importance of election integrity and the responsibilities of public officials.
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He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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.
Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
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