After so many historical illustrations of the evil effects of abandoning the policy of protection for that of a revenue tariff, we... are again confronted by the suggestion that the principle of protection shall be eliminated from our tariff legislation. Have we not had enough of such experiments?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our part...y]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I no longer fit in with these times. Great changes can come in four years. These socialistic notions of government are not of my d...ay. When I was in office, tax reduction, debt reduction, tariff stability and economy were the things to which I gave attention. We succeeded on those lines.... These new ideas call for new men to develop them.... We cannot put everything up to the Government without overburdening it. I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease.... I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equ...als in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and si...nce then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good govern...ment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour, and idleness. Of these the first onl...y is meritorious; and to it all the products of labor rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of its just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit i...s being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lod...ging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »