He understood better than any other man I ever knew the value of getting the united support of men who were without special influence, even the man who were odious or ridiculous among their own neighbors, but who united might be a very formidable force.
Hoar reflects on the political acumen of a man who could rally support from unlikely allies.
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A complete system of education at the National charge was an essential element of the reconstruction policy.
It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by parties.
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.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
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