Political Quotes

In all the revolted states, upon the testimony of your ablest generals, there is no safety to the property or lives of loyal men.

With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.

The haste with which the question was brought to a decision can hardly be justified, and is a striking illustration of the intense party-feeling which had been engendered by the war.

An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.