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An Administration would be unworthy of confidence at home or respect abroad should it cease to be influenced by the conviction that no apparent advantage can be purchased at a price so dear as that of national wrong or dishonor.
Franklin PierceverifiedInaugural Address·March 4, 1853
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Hence a sound and comprehensive policy should embrace not less the distant future than the urgent present.
Franklin PierceverifiedInaugural Address·March 4, 1853

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