Benjamin Harrison actually said...

"The bill does not submit the question of granting this aid to a vote of the people of the county, but confers direct authority upon the supervisors to issue the bonds."

"If there were no other objections to this bill, I should deem this alone sufficient, that no provision is made for submitting to a vote of the people at an election, after due notice and under the san..."

"This great area is to be taxed to construct a road which can, in the nature of things, be of advantage to but a fraction of it."

"It has been so often and so persistently stated that our tariff laws offered an insurmountable barrier to a large exchange of products with the Latin-American nations that I deem it proper to call esp..."