Political Quotes

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.

The issue is not now whether we ought originally to have begun this investigation, but it is whether, having expended a very large part of the necessary amount to do the full work, we ought to break it off for lack of a comparatively small…

The same reasons which impelled me to decline to sign the wool bill control me in this case.

Now that they can be studied and understood—all the business men who touch the decision in any way will conduct their business hereafter according to the law.