Veto Message
06/20/1886
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I am not willing, even by inaction, to be charged with acquiescence in what appears to be such an entire departure from ...
The experiment of substituting civilized methods for brute force as the means of settling international questions of rig...
A departure from this rule, even in aid of cases of hardship, can not fail to establish precedents inviting the abandonm...
I do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a public res...