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“I should be more faint-hearted than they make me, if, through fear of idle reproaches, I should abandon my own convictions…to be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation, shows a man unfit to hold an office such as this, which, by such conduct, he makes the slave of those whose errors it is his business to control.” (Fabius)