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.
Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval a Joint Resolution for the Admission of the Territories...
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On the Pacific Coast the mobilization will involve a brigade of infantry In the Los Angeles district for the purpose of defending San Diego and San Pedro against possible attack by the navy.
With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the treaty, I transmit herewith an authenticated copy of a treaty signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and Great Britain on August 3, 1911.
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.
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