Political Quotes

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.

I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.

Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.

They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.