Many bad men found that somehow their ambitions were nipped in the bud by a process they could hardly understand, and many good men were called into the public service in obedience to a summons from a hand the influence of which they never discovered.
Hoar discusses the mysterious forces that influence political careers and public service.
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The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
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