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He might be broken, but he could not be bent.
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This quote conveys a powerful message about resilience and determination in the face of adversity.
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Thoughtful men who were not in any sense political partisans gave careful heed to his words.
Thoughtful men who reverenced the safeguard known to civil judicial proceedings were appalled.
Indeed, he went a step farther in the way of irreconciliation, preferring Hoffman and Tammany, he said, to "the reckless, red-radicalism which rules the present Congress....
Perhaps, on the whole, nothing in Van Buren's official life showed greater political courage or discernment.
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