Political Quotes

If they could withdraw an officer from the command of the President and select him for the performance of an executive duty, they might upon the same principle annex to an appropriation to carry on a war a condition requiring it not to be used for the defense of the country unless a particular person of its own selection should command the Army.

It has rendered us prosperous in peace and triumphant in war.

the country has been eminently prosperous in all its material interests.

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.