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His intellect and soul, his conceptions of statesmanship and of duty expanded as the country grew and as the demands upon him increased.
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Hoar describes the growth of intellect and statesmanship in response to the evolving needs of the country.
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It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
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