Political Quotes

The condition of affairs among the Five Civilized Tribes...has assumed such an aspect as to render it almost indispensable that there should be an entire change in the relations of these Indians to the General Government.

I believe no greater danger confronts us as a nation than the unhappy decadence among our people of genuine and trustworthy love and affection for our Government as the embodiment of the highest and best aspirations of humanity.

I regret that I am constrained to disapprove an important appropriation bill so near the close of the present session of Congress.

I transmit herewith a treaty for the arbitration of all matters in difference between the United States and Great Britain.