His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.

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.

Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.

Judge Hoar strenuously insisted that the Judges of the newly created Circuit Courts of the United States should be made up of the best lawyers, without Senatorial dictation.

Judge Hoar never doubted that the service of a clean, able, upright Circuit Court, appointed without political influence, and entirely acceptable to the public, was well worth the sacrifice.

Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.

It relates to matters more permanent than human life.

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.

He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.

And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.

The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.

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.

I believe that as time goes on, the great self-restraint of the American people in dealing with the momentous peril of 1877, and the constructive ability which created the simple but perfect mechanism of the Electoral Commission, will…

It was undoubtedly the chief object of this last provision to prevent the perpetuation of power in the same hands, or under the same influences, by removing the choice of President wholly from the control of persons wielding National…

However, in spite of all this the country was safe with him.

I had become thoroughly sick of Washington and politics and public life.

So, if any President shall hereafter repeat this attempt it will require a good deal of firmness to defeat it.

John James Ingalls was in many respects one of the brightest intellects I ever knew.

No Senator in debate shall refer offensively to any State of the Union.

But when the vote came on I said to myself: "This measure is right.

It is not only wonderful in its amount, but in its origin, its resources, and in its whole conduct.

A war with England would have been a grievous thing to her workingmen who stood by us in our hour of peril, and to all that class of Englishmen whom we loved, and who loved us.

These attacks appealed to the lowest passions and prejudices.

There were other very strong arguments on the same side, and I had the gratification of being assured by several Senators that my presentation of the case had convinced them.

He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.