FastSaying
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
Rufus Choate
Restraint
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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
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We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
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Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
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