Unrestrained by precedent and unruled by fear for the future, he spoke with confidence to a people whom he delighted with the breadth and liberality of his views, lifting them onto heights from which they had never before surveyed their political rights.
This quote celebrates a political figure's ability to inspire and elevate public discourse through his confident and liberal views.
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Thoughtful men who reverenced the safeguard known to civil judicial proceedings were appalled.
Of imposing appearance, he looked like a man formed to rule.
He set the custom of dictating bills in chancery to an amanuensis, doing it with such accuracy that a word had seldom to be changed.
He used to get angry with men simply because they voted against him on questions in which he took an interest.
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