Political Quotes

I can not close this message without inviting the attention of Congress again to the necessity for the erection of a building to contain the public archives.

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

The truth is that the language of the act is so ambiguous and possibly all-embracing that it is impracticable for the Treasury Department to give an exact estimate as to the diminution in revenue which will follow its passage.

But there is another, and a very important, reason why the bill ought not to become a law, and that is that in many instances it adopts the principle, rarely permitted in any revenue system, on whatever theory constructed, by which the…