On the record
I never found public employment pleasant or congenial.
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Hoar candidly states his discomfort with public employment, revealing his personal feelings about political life.
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Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.
What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
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