Political Quotes

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

In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit the objectionable second article and also the few words of the twenty-eighth article which had been stricken out by the…

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.

Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in Charleston Harbor, until an absolute necessity for doing so should make itself apparent.