Political Quotes

I have long foreseen and often forewarned my countrymen of the now impending danger.

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 President of the power to order him to any other army duty for the performance of which he might consider him better adapted.

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.

In all its various bearings, therefore, I commend the question to Congress as the only human tribunal under Providence possessing the power to meet the existing emergency.