"Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the tariff."
"I shall not hesitate to invite the attention of Congress to this fact and to the necessity for action predicated thereon."
"Certainly we should proceed prudently in dealing with them upon the basis of ascertained facts rather than hastily and without knowledge to make a reduction of the tariff to satisfy a popular desire."
"I have always regarded this language as fixing the proper measure of protection at the ascertained difference between the cost of production at home and that abroad."
"If I fail to recommend the reduction of excessive duties to this extent, I shall fail in my duty to the consuming public."
"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 mak..."
"I return herewith, without my approval, House joint resolution No. 14."
"I must therefore withhold my approval from this resolution if in fact I do not approve it as a matter of governmental policy."
"In dealing with the courts, which are the cornerstone of good government, and in which not only the voters, but the nonvoters and nonresidents, have a deep interest as a security for their rights of l..."
"Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority."
"Judges to fulfill their functions properly in our popular Government must be more independent than in any other form of government, and that need of independence is greater where the individual is one..."