Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

We should not be here if it were not for them, but their exercise has caused great questions to rise in our national life.

Government by the majority in Congress had practically come to a stop when Mr. Reed became Speaker.

One secret, perhaps I might say the chief secret, of Mr. Blaine's extraordinary hold upon the affections of his countrymen was his entirely ...

We are all of us apt to get to talking and thinking of the nation and the state as abstractions.