Political Quotes

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 Senate.

I possess no dispensing power.

The power to carry on the business of the Government by means of a provisional appointment when a vacancy occurs is expressly given by the act of February 13, 1795.

no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until within a very recent period.