On the record
If we need a law to keep them out, we can make it.
Said by
Whitelaw Reid
Source
gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “If we need a law to keep them out, we can make it.”
Editor's note · Context
Reid asserts that the U.S. can legislate to restrict immigration if necessary.
Share
More from Whitelaw Reid
May it not prove, moreover, in that work of reorganization, which now engages the thoughts of all patriotic men, that universal suffrage is the best reconciler of the most comprehensive lenity with the most perfect public security and the…
It has proved, also, that universal suffrage is the surest guarantee and most powerful stimulus of individual, social and political progress.
It is my firm conviction, that suffrage is not only the best security for freedom, but the most potent agent of amelioration and civilization.
They should strive for distinction by economy, by industry, by sobriety, by patient perseverance in well-doing, by constant improvement of religious instruction, and by the constant practice of Christian virtues.