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To him it was a grand intuitive truth, inscribed in blazing letters upon the tablet of his inner consciousness, to deny which would have been for him to deny that he himself existed.
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Hoar illustrates Sumner's conviction about freedom as an undeniable truth central to his existence.
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Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.
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.
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