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Quotes
Here's some quotes from the Chief Ministers...
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it." - Armand Linville, speaking of the state of the country after the Constitutional Revolution.
"Boreoamerica is, and always will be, free. The average voter has knowledge enough to guide the nation." - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, talking of the virtues of democracy. This shows how different even conservative Democrats are to the aristocratic establishment that ruled the country before the Constitutional Revolution.
"We Aboriginals have less influence than we deserve. One of the great things about this country is that it is flexible enough to allow us what we deserve." - William Walker talking of the Aboriginal influence on the nation.
"As long as this country denies the democratic right to vote to the lowest of all Boreoamericans, then we cannot look at ourselves and say we are truly better than we were thirty years ago." - James A. Garfield, defending his Electoral Reform Bill. This statement generated an outcry from Democrats and even from some of his Whigs.
"I am the man who is marching to his death." - Ely S. Parker, talking of the Whigs' electoral chances in the 1887 general election.
"It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership that it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless competitor for it flatters and nourishes our weaknesses and lulls us into complacency."
- Samuel Tylden, on his 1887 landslide victory against the Whigs.
"Sensible and responsible workers do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by the different classes in the system of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours." - Steven Cleveland, speaking of the growth of the states that allow the working-class to vote. This shows the increasingly conservativeness of the Democratic Party.
"After we have calmly stood by and allowed unions to grow strong, we should not be asked to make them able to threat this country." - John Carlisle, speaking of the growth of trade unions. His perspective of trade unions becoming a potential threat to the country shows the middle-class dominance of the Democratic Party.
“Oh, Mr. President, do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of illegitimacy."
- Pascal Chastain, speaking of his successful referendum to the President who threatened to contest it on the basis that Linville and the rest of the Founding Fathers did not intend it to be used that way.
"Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children." - Wilfrid Laurier, speaking of the importance of thinking of both the future and the past. He was referring to the other parties' tendency to look to the past for all the answers.
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." - Dougal McAdoo, speaking of his declining to enter in a debate with Marion La Follette, his progressive competitor for the Whig leadership. McAdoo's campaign split the party in two.
"In the great fulfillment we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation." - Gamaliel Harding, speaking of the Democratic perspective on the people's relationship to the government. He was contrasting it with what he considered the Socialist perspective to be.
"To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature." - Henri Voclain, speaking of the economy and his "status quo" approach to the Desolation. Floyd Olson would later reply with "The standing crop has all withered, much to his ignorance."
"I intend to do what little one man can do to awaken the public conscience, and in the meantime I am not frightened by your menaces." - Urban Stendahl in 1918, making a statement against the Sedition Act. He was later arrested, but was re-elected in his seat's by-election.