Political Quotes

The dispatch of Mr. Dallas being in the original, its return to the Department of State is requested.

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…

The peace and order of the city itself and the security of the inauguration of the President elect, were objects of such vast importance to the whole country that I could not hesitate to adopt precautionary defensive measures.