Political Quotes

Governments may be, and doubtless often have been, wrong in going to war to enforce claims.

I am convinced that it is ours by the treaty fairly and impartially construed.

The lawfulness of the practice rests upon the exigencies of the public service; which require that the movements of the Government shall not be arrested by an accidental vacancy in one of the Departments; upon an act of Congress expressly…

Neither the Government nor the citizens in whose behalf the convention has been concluded have any further claims upon the island of Aves.