An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? (made a call from Washington to Pennsylvania with Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, patented on 7 March 1876) |
An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? (made a call from Washington to Pennsylvania with Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, patented on 7 March 1876) |
Coming in, I was denounced as a fraud by all the extreme men of the opposing party, and as an ingrate and a traitor by the same class of men in my own party. Going out, I have the good will, blessings, and approval of the best people of all parties . . . |
He serves his party best who serves his country best. |
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. |
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. |
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...' |
It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution. |
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. |