Political Quotes

My prayer to God is that He would preserve the Constitution and the Union throughout all generations.

The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of the slavery question throughout the North for the last quarter of a century has at length produced its malign influence…

We ought ever to maintain the most perfect equality between native and naturalized citizens.

In my former protest, therefore, I truly and emphatically declared that it was made for no reason personal to myself, but because the proceedings of the House were in violation of the rights of the coordinate executive branch of the…