The longer I live, the more carefully I study the former times or observe my own time, the more I am impressed with the sensitiveness of every people, however great or however free, to an individual touch, to the influence of a personal force.
Hoar expresses his belief in the importance of individual influence on the course of history and society.
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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.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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