George F. Hoar

I have every reason to believe that my constituents in the Worcester district would have gladly continued me in the public service for ten years longer, if I had been so minded.

Roger Minott Sherman was distinguished for acute logical powers and great elegance of diction,--words and sentences seemed to flow from his lips as if he were reading from the Spectator.

He was one of the ablest lawyers and advocates New England ever produced, probably having no equal at the Bar of New England except Jeremiah Mason and Daniel Webster.

This phrase had played not only an important but a decisive part in the great debate between a strict construction of the Constitution and the construction which has prevailed and made it the law of the being of a great National life.

At any rate, it was the fortune of Daniel Webster that the doctrine of National Unity, whenever it has prevailed in the hearts of his countrymen, has been supported by his argument and clothed in his language.

If the sentiment of Patriotism, and love of Liberty and Union are to be dominant in this Republic, we cannot measure the value of the influence of Daniel Webster and the speech in reply to Hayne.

I beg to say that I see no way in which the public good can be so well promoted as by your consenting to go to the Senate.

The asteroids must not envy the Georgium Sides his orbit of fourscore years, but rather rejoice in his beneficent and cheerful light, and in the certainty that it will keep on shining so long as there is a star in the sky.

You may well be amused to think how many political reputations have risen and set during your long and sunny reign.

I suppose there was never a merely social club with so many famous men in it or another where the conversation was more delightful since that to which Johnson and Burke and Goldsmith and Garrick and Reynolds belonged.

But I think there can be found few members of that party who have been less controlled in their public actions by violent partisanship than I have.

I freely admit that I have believed with all my heart and soul in the principles of the Republican Party.

Some of my Southern brethren have spoken of me with undeserved kindness in recent years, and they like to say that my heart has softened within the last few years, and that I have become more tolerant and less harsh and bigoted than I was…

But he acted always, so far as I knew, under the impulse of a warm, kind and brave heart, and of a great and wise intellect.

But such trifles sometimes give an idea of the character of men like Harrison more than their greater actions.

I spoke of the great affection that had inspired the people of Virginia for centuries, and reminded him that his own ancestor, General Washington's friend, General Benjamin Harrison of the Revolution, had been a child of the College, and I…

President, if you think there is a man in the country who has a higher regard for you, or a more sincere desire for your success than I have, I will never come here again." Mr.

He said that while Marshals were being murdered in Florida, and the execution of the law resisted, he would appoint no man to public office who either sympathized with such things, or belonged to a party that did not oppose and resist them.

My own belief is that as a free citizen I can do more towards giving a right direction to public affairs than I could as a Senator.

If I could believe that any exigency in public affairs called for me, then my personal wishes would be subservient--but it is not so.

I never appear before an audience that I am not deeply moved by the demonstrations of the affectionate interest of my home people.

It is very kind of you to take note of my work in the campaign, and I value very highly what you say of it--though your friendship has perhaps, in some degree, spoiled your judgment.

It is a lesson which many of them learn very late in life, that many a good cause has been jeopardized or lost by this infirmity of men who are leaders on the righteous side.

While his hand was on the helm she would keep the course of safety, of honor, of glory, of prosperity, of republican liberty.

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