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He believed that the highest human occupation was to take a share in the leadership and direction of a self- governing people.
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He believes that participating in governance is the highest calling for individuals in a democratic society.
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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.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
It is utterly impossible for me to support the Buffalo nomination.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
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