Political Quotes

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There is hardly a political question among the great questions that have excited the American people for the last half century on which we did not differ from each other.
Said by
George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Hoar notes the deep political divisions that have characterized American discourse over the years.

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