Political Quotes

George F. Hoar: “But if I am asked whether I will advise the convention at Philadelphia to nominate, or if nominated I will recommend the…”

On the record
But if I am asked whether I will advise the convention at Philadelphia to nominate, or if nominated I will recommend the people to support for the office of President of the United States, a swearing, fighting, frontier colonel, I only say that I shall not do it.
Said by
George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Hoar expresses his refusal to support a particular presidential candidate due to his violent background.

Share

More from George F. Hoar

But I like to think he will be sent on some errands like that of the presence which came to Ben Adhem with a great wakening light, rich and like a lily in bloom, to tell him that the name of him who loved his fellow men led all the names…

gutenberg.org

If there is anything more beautiful than a moonlight summer night in the heart of the Forest of Dean, it is its transformation into a summer morning, with the sparkle of dew on the grass, and the sunrise on the trees; with the music of…

gutenberg.org

We are here in the sweet silence of a summer morning, eighteen hundred years after such a scene, and able mentally to catch some glimpse of it; some echo of the storm that has left behind it so ineffaceable a mark.

gutenberg.org

We speak of a light that makes darkness visible; and similarly there are sounds that deepen the long intervals of silence with which they alternate.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation