Political Quotes

The weight of these mails, averaging from 12 to 15 tons semi-monthly, renders it, in view of the climate and character of the road, manifestly impossible to forward them overland without involving an expenditure which no wise…

This state of the facts raises the question whether Congress, under the Constitution, has the power to give away the public lands either to States or individuals.

The charges made against me in vague and general terms were of such a false and atrocious character that I did not entertain a moment's apprehension for the result.

It was impossible that Congress could have had such an intention, and therefore, according to my construction of the clause in question, it merely designated Captain Meigs as its preference for the work, without intending to deprive the…