Political Quotes

It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can scarcely suppose that the wise and eminent men by whom they were made could have been mistaken on a point which was brought to their attention so often.

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.

The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves.

I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has wisely withheld that power even from Congress.