The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question].…

What, then, was that policy? It was a policy of conditional neutrality. Under the circumstances of the case we did not believe that it was for the honour or in…

What I see in the amendment is not an assertion of great principles, which no man honours more than myself. What is at the bottom of it is rather that principl…

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

Diejenige Regierung ist die beste, die sich uberflussing macht.

All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collision…