“The Opposition tells us that we ought not to govern a people without their consent. I answer, The rule of liberty that all just government derives its authority from the consent of the governed, applies only to those who are capable of self-government.”

About Albert J. Beveridge

Politician • American

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge was an American historian and United States Senator from Indiana. A leading member of the Republican Party, he was intellectually one of the most prominent imperialists and Progressive Era...