He would have been as competent to legislate for an entire continent so long as that legislation were to be governed, restrained, inspired by the principles in which our Union is founded and the maxims of the men who builded it.
Hoar believes that the individual could legislate for a continent as long as it adhered to foundational principles.
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To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.
You said the people of Lowell would not think very highly of me when they saw me riding through the streets in my carriage and knew it was paid for by the money of this bank.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
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