Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak... how we feel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living a...gain. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My dear Mr. District Attorney, your law is shockingly bad. I have the perfect alibi. I am legally dead. Your business is with the ...living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Following publication of an advertisement of a "Barbacue & Ice" at Beauchamp's Springs, at which congressional candidates were to ...speak, the editor of the Houston Morning Star, of July 4, 1839, said: "(It will) not be an unfavorable opportunity for these gentlemen to express their true politics ... provided ... the liquors do not prove too powerful."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow bor...n out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The veto is a President's Constitutional right, given to him by the drafters of the Constitution because they wanted it as a check... against irresponsible Congressional action. The veto forces Congress to take another look at legislation that has been passed. I think this is a responsible tool for a president of the United States, and I have sought to use it responsibly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seemed monstrous to our intolerant youth that "poor white folksy" men should have an equal right with gentlemen, born and bred,... in deciding who should represent the county in the Legislature and the district in Congress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel the desire to be with you all the time. Oh, an occasional absence of a week or two is a good thing to give one the happines...s of meeting again, but this living apart is in all ways bad. We have had our share of separate life during the four years of war. There is nothing in the small ambition of Congressional life, or in the gratified vanity which it sometimes affords, to compensate for separation from you. We must manage to live together hereafter. I can't stand this, and will not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,... I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yesterday the Electoral Commission decided not to go behind the papers filed with the Vice-President in the case of Florida.... I ...read the arguments in the Congressional Record and can't see how lawyers can differ on the question. But the decision is by a strictly party vote--eight Republicans against seven Democrats! It shows the strength of party ties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »