If all these things could be accomplished easily, there wouldn't be any glory in success.

It's not an easy thing to drive a man like Mr.Bassett out of politics, or even to defeat the dangerous measures he introduces in the legislature.

If it were easy to get rid of them, such men wouldn't last long.

Besides, I'm a little afraid it wasn't half so much Dan's patriotism that was involved as it was his vanity.

He was bitter because he found that Mr.Bassett had deceived him and was trying to use him.
But in view of Mr.Bassett's many kindnesses to him he wouldn't make a personal matter of it in the House.