Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
It would depend on whether a judge of the Supreme Court came down heads or tails.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th President of the United States (Republican, NY), Explanation to British politicians of whether or not certain tax provisions would be constitutional in the United States, Visit to London after his presidency, 1909
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Cummings was arguing against a Constitutional amendment. His alternative led to Roosevelt's court packing schema.
As Poet Laureate to the King Dryden did not have great confidence in the wisdom of the public.
This quotation was from a mathematician who was in the midst of the expansion of mathematics in the late 19th century to include the then rapid and rich development of Probability. This required mathematicians, scientists and others who would use the new mathematics to think in a very different way. For the existing mathematicians his quote clearly states the dilemma for them. Today, scientists and mathematicians have little trouble with “laws of probability” and realize that Probability is governed and controlled in the same way as other fields of mathematics; they are comfortable with different results occurring under the exact same experimental conditions, and those different results are unpredictable in any particular instance, but exactly predictable in terms of frequency of each possible occurrence. This makes Quantum Mechanics rational. However, few non scientists have had their thinking expanded and are comfortable with this thinking. Law and public policy makers are particularly vexed by not being able to think and work in this paradigm where consequences of something can be described for a population precisely, and yet be impossible to describe for any particular individual. This will improve over time, as politicians and other community leaders become better educated mathematically and scientifically.
The Senator was referring to the immigration laws which many, including him, thought were unjust, unfair, racist and discriminatory.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., often referred to as Teddy or his initials T. R., was an American statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer, who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He previously served as 33rd governor of New York from 1899 to 1900 and the 25th vice president of the United States from March to September 1901. Roosevelt emerged as a leader of the Republican Party and became a driving force for anti-trust and Progressive policies.
