Political Quotes

I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.

I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.

Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.

By Perpetual Peace Kant understood a condition of nations where there could be no fear of War; and this condition, he said, was demanded by reason, which, abhorring all War, as little adapted to establish right, must regard this final…