If he had not lived, the history of the country would have been different in some very important particulars; and it is not unlikely that his death changed the result in some matters of great pith and moment, which are to affect profoundly the history of the country in the future.
Hoar emphasizes the profound impact of an individual's life and death on the course of history.
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Judge Hoar strenuously insisted that the Judges of the newly created Circuit Courts of the United States should be made up of the best lawyers, without Senatorial dictation.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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