Beside all these things there has been during a large part of my public service, especially the part immediately following the Civil War, a battle to maintain the purity of elections and the purity of administration and government expenditure against corruption.
Hoar reflects on his commitment to upholding election integrity and government accountability during his public service.
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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.
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.
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