On the record
No nation could, without infinite suffering and mischief, undertake to set itself against the rule adopted by the rest of mankind.
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Hoar warns against a nation attempting to defy global economic standards, highlighting the potential consequences.
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But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
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