Political Quotes

I must therefore withhold my approval from this resolution if in fact I do not approve it as a matter of governmental policy.

We believe that this benefit is best accomplished by popular government, because in the long run each class of individuals is apt to secure better provision for themselves through their own voice in government than through the altruistic interest of others, however intelligent or philanthropic.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described land, to wit, the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the west half of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 26, township 18 north of range 13 west of the Gila and Salt River meridian, be, and the same is hereby, reserved from entry, sale, settlement, or other disposition, for use of the Walapai Indians, subject to any valid, existing right of any person to the land described herein.

No honest, clear-headed man, however great a lover of popular government, can deny that the unbridled expression of the majority of a community converted hastily into law or action would sometimes make a government tyrannical and cruel.