"The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities."

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Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society.

— Daniel Webster