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  1. Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fair…
  2. One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
  3. The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumula…
  4. All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to m…
  5. Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot sa…
  6. [Rutherford B. Hayes] was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious civil off…
  7. Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
  8. The progress of society is mainly ... the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

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