Thomas Reed
Thomas Reed
Thomas Brackett Reed, occasionally ridiculed as Czar Reed, was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1889–1891 and also from 1895–1899. He was a powerful leader of the Republican Party, and during his tenure as Speaker of the House, he served with greater influence than any Speaker who came before, and he forever increased its power and influence for those who succeeded him in the position...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 October 1839
CountryUnited States of America
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today.
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.
Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.
I don't care about cost, ... As long as he likes it, I'll pay for it.