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.

My opinion remains unchanged that justice as well as sound policy requires us still to seek a peaceful solution of the questions at issue between the North and the South.

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 on the slaves and inspired them with vague notions of freedom.

The amendment does not seem necessary to secure any right either of the United States or of any American citizen claiming under them.