I don't think you will succeed in getting any considerable number of the people of this country, who are able to read and write, or to count ten on their fingers, to believe that, as I am entering my seventieth year, I am actuated by any personal ambition, in the counsel which I give my fellow citizens.
Hoar asserts that as he approaches his seventieth year, he is motivated by a desire to serve rather than personal ambition.
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There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
You said the people of Lowell would not think very highly of me when they saw me riding through the streets in my carriage and knew it was paid for by the money of this bank.
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