Grover Cleveland: “The Government ought not to be called upon to insure against the quarrelsome propensities of its individual soldiers.”

The ability to read and write, as required in this bill, in and of itself affords, in my opinion, a misleading test of contented industry and supplies unsatisfactory evidence of desirable citizenship or a proper apprehension of the…

An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.'

In my opinion, it is infinitely more safe to admit a hundred thousand immigrants who, though unable to read and write, seek among us only a home and opportunity to work than to admit one of those unruly agitators and enemies of…

The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.