| 1905 - 142 pages
...express my views to Congress and urge them according to my judgment, and when I think it advisable will exercise the constitutional privilege of interposing...people. Laws are to govern all alike — those opposed as well as those who favor them. I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so... | |
| William Henry Smith - Slavery - 1903 - 476 pages
...Mansion in charge of General Schofield. "All laws will be faithfully executed," said the new President, "whether they meet my approval or not. I shall on...but none to enforce against the will of the people." The intent of this declaration was undoubtedly understood by Mr. Johnson as he read it in the seclusion... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1905 - 518 pages
...accept them without fear. The office has come to me unsought. I commence its duties untrammelled. I will be faithfully executed whether they meet my approval...people. Laws are to govern all alike, those opposed ел well as fhose who favor them. I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so... | |
| United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1907 - 680 pages
...express my views to Congress and urge them according to my judgment, and when I think it advisable will exercise the constitutional privilege of interposing...people. Laws are to govern all alike — those opposed as well as those who favor them. I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so... | |
| Walter Gaston Shotwell - 1910 - 758 pages
...the President's subsequent contest with Sumner over San Domingo, was, that on all subjects he should have "a policy to recommend, but none to enforce against the will of the people ". He probably meant this statement in all candor, but in reference to the course that had been pursued... | |
| Reconstruction - 1914 - 414 pages
...program was then embodied in the law, and the law must be obeyed. In his first inaugural address he said, "All laws will be faithfully executed whether they meet my approval or not. . . . Laws are to govern all alike — those opposed as well as those who favor them. I know of no... | |
| Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...accept them without fear. The office has come to me unsought; I commence its duties untrammeled." " All laws will be faithfully executed, whether they...people. Laws are to govern all alike — those opposed as well as those who favor them. I know no method to repeal bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their... | |
| Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1918 - 392 pages
...express my views to Congress and urge them according to my judgment, and when I think it advisable will exercise the constitutional privilege of interposing...people. Laws are to govern all alike — those opposed as well as those who favor them. I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1923 - 328 pages
...books, but he knew how to express himself in good strong English. In his first Inaugural he said, " I shall on all subjects have a policy to recommend,...but none to enforce against the will of the people." When told that a certain senator who ULYSSES S. GRANT was very proud of his learning and his literary... | |
| History, Modern - 1870 - 976 pages
...express my views to Congress, and urge them according to ray judgment, and when I think it advisable, will exercise the constitutional privilege of interposing...my approval or not. I shall, on all subjects, have u policy to recommend , but none to enforce against the will of the people. Laws are to govern all... | |
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