Political Quotes

On the record
They have each in turn regulated the adoption of free-trade by the ratio of their progress towards the point where they could overcome competition.
Said by
James Blaine
Republican · Maine

Editor's note · Context

Blaine observes that European nations have each regulated free trade based on their competitive capabilities.

Share

More from James Blaine

In Congressional districts where the colored race constituted one-half of the total population (and in many instances the proportion was even larger), the vote of one white man offset the vote of two in a Northern district where suffrage…

gutenberg.org

Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.

gutenberg.org

These divergent practices had been allowed to develop for seventy-seven years of the nation's life, when, admonished by the Stockton case of the latitudinary results to which loose methods might lead, Congress took jurisdiction of the…

gutenberg.org

Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation