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There is hardly a political question among the great questions that have excited the American people for the last half century on which we did not differ from each other.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge F. Hoar: “There is hardly a political question among the great questions that have excited the American people for the last half…”
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Hoar notes the deep political divisions that have characterized American discourse over the years.
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We are here in the sweet silence of a summer morning, eighteen hundred years after such a scene, and able mentally to catch some glimpse of it; some echo of the storm that has left behind it so ineffaceable a mark.
We speak of a light that makes darkness visible; and similarly there are sounds that deepen the long intervals of silence with which they alternate.
But I like to think he will be sent on some errands like that of the presence which came to Ben Adhem with a great wakening light, rich and like a lily in bloom, to tell him that the name of him who loved his fellow men led all the names…
It is not too much to say that most of the main roads in England are Roman; but the very continuity of their use has caused this to be overlooked.
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