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Ulysses S. Grant Quotes: Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
         

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.


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