I was about to say he was a man without the gift of diplomacy; but he was a man with the gift of the highest diplomacy--directness, simplicity, frankness, courage--qualities which make always their way to their mark and to their goal over all circumlocutions and ambiguities.
Hoar describes the unique diplomatic qualities of a man, valuing directness and courage over ambiguity.
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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.
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.
The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
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