On the record
Whether you liked him or disliked him, you gave him your ears, erect and intent.
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Hoar notes the compelling nature of a speaker that commands attention regardless of personal feelings.
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To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
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