Political Quotes

These ceremonies are not for the benefit of the dead.

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.

Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the tariff.

It is easy in cases like this to take the course which timidity prompts, and to do nothing, but such a course does not inure to the public weal.