John Sherman

The functions of the crown are now more limited than those of our President, while the House of Commons can at any moment put an end to the ministry, and if necessary a new House of Commons can be convened within a brief period, and a new…

It responds quickly to a change of popular opinion.

While progressive, the people of that country are also conservative, but with each successive decade they extend the power of the House of Commons so that already in some respects it represents better the public sentiment than the Congress…

The political institutions of Great Britain are rapidly approaching our own.

My idea of Great Britain is based, not upon flying visits, but upon my study of English history and literature.

I hope some President of the United States will be bold enough to adopt, as he can, this simple measure of relief practiced by the President of the French Republic.

Washburn, and feel quite sure that in grandeur and in extent of view the American mountains are superior to those named in Europe, but the larger population in easy reach of the mountains of Switzerland will give them the preference for a…

Its form of government was, in the days of the Doges, a republic governed by an aristocracy, and its wealth was the product of commerce conducted by great merchants whose enterprise extended to every part of the known habitable globe.

Magnificent stone palaces rise from the waters, and the traveler wonders how, upon such foundations, these buildings could rest for centuries.

It is literally located in the sea; its streets are canals; its carriages are gondolas and they are peculiar and unlike any other vessel afloat.

The chief attraction of this city is that it is unlike any other city in the world in its location, its architecture, its history and in the habits and occupation of its people.

I commend the wisdom of their choice of location, for in Florence the love of art, especially of sculpture, is more highly appreciated than in any other city of Europe that I have visited.

It is a sad reflection, that applies especially to all parts of southern Italy, that the descendants of the Romans, once the rulers of the world, are now classed among the lowest in intelligence in the Christian and civilized world.

Our continental position ought to dissuade us from accepting outside possessions which in case of war would cost the United States more to defend than their value.

The repeated wars on a small scale that have occurred since that time, and the complications and expense caused by the tripartite protectorate of the islands, furnish another example of the folly of the United States in extending its…

The time has arrived when Congress, and especially the Senate, must give intelligent attention to the questions involved in the occupation and settlement of the Samoan Islands.

The experiment of Lincoln, with Chase and Seward as his principal advisers, was not a good example to follow.

I doubted the wisdom of competing presidential candidates accepting cabinet appointments under a successful rival.

I gratefully acknowledge that all the political favor I have received has been from the people of my native state.

If you want to do your country a valuable service you will go to the polls and give a good square honest vote for Harrison.

He would stand like a wall of fire on every question of honor with a foreign country.

Benjamin Harrison is a man for whom every American citizen should vote.

I reverently thank God for our homes, for our great cities, for our state and, more than all else, for our country.

I shall think, however, that I am not through unless I reverently and devoutly give thanks to the Ruler of the universe for all this great good that has come upon this great continent.

You talk about hard times now--I have seen the time when a man was glad to get thirty-two cents for a bushel of wheat; when eggs could not be sold, when the only way to get 'York money' was to drive horses and cattle and sheep over the…