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He was faithful to truth as he saw it; to duty as he understood it; to Constitutional Liberty as he conceived it.
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This quote reflects Hoar's commitment to truth, duty, and constitutional liberty as guiding principles.
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The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
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.
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.
He would undoubtedly have taken a very high place in the public and official life of his generation if he had found himself in accord with either of the great political parties.
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