Political Quotes

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.

He said, with a great deal of emphasis, and with an expression of countenance I shall never forget: "When a man is sincerely penitent for his misdeeds, and gives satisfactory evidence of the same, he can safely be pardoned, and there is no…

All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

Second. That the flag, when raised, be saluted by one hundred guns from Fort Sumter and by a national salute from every fort and rebel battery that fired upon Fort Sumter.