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Human rights and constitutional privileges must not be forgotten in the race for wealth and commercial supremacy.
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Hoar emphasizes the importance of human rights and constitutional privileges in the pursuit of wealth.
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His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
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 will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
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