Political Quotes

an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon

The noncompetitive examination in a case like this is not only vicious, but is in effect a fraud upon the public.

The board of engineers who signed this report are of all the men in their profession, within or without the United States, the men who are on the whole best qualified to pass upon these very questions which they examined.

The first of all considerations is the permanent welfare of our people.