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“The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, Feb. 13, 1835.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a22cf6eb14605b5026d7a011b46ddf7281a807b447e2bc0adeb39f9ee7933977
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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