On the record
It has long been a tradition of the House that no man becomes its leader who does not enter it before he is forty.
Source
gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “It has long been a tradition of the House that no man becomes its leader who does not enter it before he is forty.”
Editor's note · Context
Blaine discusses the tradition that leaders in the House typically enter before the age of forty.
Share
More from James Blaine
Under such circumstances, to send a military force into any State, with orders to act against the people, would be simply making war upon them.
The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated provinces, it would totally destroy the whole theory upon which they are now connected.
But this is a totally different thing from an offensive war to punish the people for the political misdeeds of their State Government, or to enforce an acknowledgment that the Government of the United States is supreme.
You can use force only to repel an assault on the public property and aid the Courts in the performance of their duty.
Other voices in this conversation
