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Political candidates for the lowest or highest positions are directly or indirectly pledged.
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This quote emphasizes the binding nature of pledges for political candidates in the electoral process.
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No, Sirs! we know very little of the art of war, and General Scott a great deal.
As he lived, so he died, a strange, lonely, unhappy man, out of tune with the beautiful world in which he was permitted to exist upward of four score years.
People were getting tired of bold action without achievement in the field, and every opponent of the Administration became a threnodist.
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people, until he fancies himself commissioned by heaven to liberate them.
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