If a man is not decent, is not square and honest, then the possession of ability only serves to render him more dangerous to the community; as a wild beast grows more dangerous the stronger and fiercer he is.
Remarks in Northfield, Massachusetts
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I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference.
No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.
I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.
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