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To govern one's self, not others, is
true glory. To serve through love, not to rule, is Christian
greatness. Office is not dignity. The lowest men, because most
faithless in principle, most servile to opinion, are to be found in
office. I am sorry to say it, but the truth be spoken, that, at the
present moment, political action in this country does little to lift up
any who are concerned in it. It stands in opposition to a high
morality.
~William Ellery Channing ~ |
