Political Quotes

It is also ordered,That no person shall be admitted into any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he shall have passed an appropriate examination prepared by the United States Civil Service Commission and his eligibility has been certified to this office by said Commission.

The ownership and management by the Government of penitentiaries...have at last to a slight extent been realized.

It is most gratifying to note the satisfactory results that have followed the inauguration of the new system provided for...certain Federal officials are compensated by salaries instead of fees.

We can not view the pending conflict without considering...our inevitably close relations to it.