Political Quotes

But the most serious objection to the legislation is that it creates at once upon the taking effect of the law the offices of district attorney and marshal for each of the three districts, and the effect, it seems to me, must be to abolish…

I have felt as a citizen and as President a mortification which every American must feel who examines into the standing of the United States in the merchant marine of the world.

I transmit herewith a communication of the 13th instant from the Secretary of the Interior

The law creates two new officers, whose aggregate compensation may be $12,000 per annum, without, it seems to me, a justifying necessity.