Benjamin Harrison actually said...

The law creates two new officers, whose aggregate compensation may be $12,000 per annum, without, it seems to me, a justifying necessity.

Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval \An Act to Prescribe the Number of District...\

02/26/1893

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We should not collect revenue for the purpose of anticipating our bonds beyond the requirements of the sinking fund.

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The wrong does not expend itself upon those whose votes are suppressed.

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