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“Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1b5647121c655111b0adf75ab1404691b4f190540fa1dd00c638b66bb44b01ff
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