Political Quotes

The Navy Department has no objection to the proposed salvage operations, but the Department of State holds the view that these wrecks are public property of the United States, which may be alienated only by an act of Congress or by a…

I think it to be greatly in the interest of fair dealing, which ought always to be encouraged by law.

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

Of course if it shall turn out that the most thorough excavation will not disclose the cause we must be content, but as long as there remains unexcavated any portion of the mud and debris within the wreck or its neighborhood from which…