The constructive statesman, the framer of the Constitution and statutes, the financier, the debater, the lawyer, the man of business, the diplomatist, the reformer, the orator, are all there, and all are there at their best.
Hoar lists the various roles that contribute to effective governance, highlighting the importance of each.
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Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
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