Political Quotes

George F. Hoar: “It is a doubtful and debated question whether General Butler was personally to blame for this terrible and disgraceful…”

On the record
It is a doubtful and debated question whether General Butler was personally to blame for this terrible and disgraceful repulse.
Said by
George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Hoar questions the accountability of a general for a disastrous military defeat, reflecting on the complexities of blame.

Share

More from George F. Hoar

We bring you a more costly and precious gift than any jewel or diadem, though it came from an Emperor's treasury.

gutenberg.org

To go fully into the role of the number three in British traditions would require a profound study; but it may be useful briefly to note its influence on the Bardic poetry-- the Triads, where the subjects are all grouped in threes.

gutenberg.org
Nov 15, 2021

This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.

congress.gov

It is not too much to say that most of the main roads in England are Roman; but the very continuity of their use has caused this to be overlooked.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation