Political Quotes

George F. Hoar: “In my opinion, in all these race difficulties and troubles, the fault has been with the Anglo-Saxons.”

On the record
In my opinion, in all these race difficulties and troubles, the fault has been with the Anglo-Saxons.
Said by
George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Hoar asserts that the Anglo-Saxon population bears responsibility for the racial difficulties faced in America.

Share

More from George F. Hoar

We bring you a more costly and precious gift than any jewel or diadem, though it came from an Emperor's treasury.

gutenberg.org

The language Statius uses is more simple than mine; but this is substantially the picture he gives: and I know of nothing that so impresses on the imagination the thunder of the power of the Roman Empire as this creation in the wilderness…

gutenberg.org

This quaint old room, with its great oak beam overhead, and its kitchen grate wide enough to roast a deer--this strange blending of an hotel dining-room and a Court of Justice, has nevertheless a link with the far distant past more…

gutenberg.org

We speak of a light that makes darkness visible; and similarly there are sounds that deepen the long intervals of silence with which they alternate.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation