department-bureaus

Updated: June 30, 2026

At the thought that their honestly earned harvest of foreign missions and consulates, department-bureaus, custom-house and revenue offices, postmasterships, Indian agencies, and army and navy contracts, might now be wrung from their grasp by the selfish greed of a mere accidental intruder a man whom nobody wanted and every one ridiculed their natures rebelled, and they felt that such things must not be; that there could be no more hope for democratic government if such things were possible.

Henry Adams - Democracy, an American novel