“In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.” BodyTalkingHundredCongressLawyerDebateCalculationsTermination Author:Franklin Pierce
“READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the mysterious order of Providence, are subject to want and to disease of body or mind; but I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States . . . .” WantMindStatesBodyGovernmentOrderUnitedUnited StatesSubjectsDutyDiseaseAuthorityConstitutionCharityMysteriousAcknowledgeProvidenceFederal GovernmentIncumbents Author:Franklin Pierce
