On the record
If preserved in full vigor, and exercised with perfect integrity, every branch will perform its duty.
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Hoar emphasizes the importance of maintaining the integrity of government branches for effective governance.
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It is utterly impossible for me to support the Buffalo nomination.
And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
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.
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.
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