[I]t will not do to act as if the moral question was not the supreme question in public life, and, in a sense, the vera causa of party conflict. (John W. Campbell)

[I]t will not do to act as if the moral question was not the supreme question in public life, and, in a sense, the vera causa of party conflict.

John W. Campbell

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