Political Quotes

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.

To this appropriation, for a wise and beneficial object, I have not the least objection.

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 administration of the Government would impose upon the Treasury.

Officers might then be found, instead of performing their appropriate duties, besieging the halls of Congress for the purpose of obtaining special favors and choice places by legislative enactment.