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George F. Hoar: “He believed that the great emotions and motives which move a free people are the noble, not the mean motives.”

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He believed that the great emotions and motives which move a free people are the noble, not the mean motives.
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George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

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Hoar asserts that noble motives drive a free people, emphasizing the importance of high ideals in governance.

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