Political Quotes

Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in Charleston Harbor, until an absolute necessity for doing so should make itself apparent.

It is manifest that if the power which this law gives had been withheld the public interest would frequently suffer very serious detriment.

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.

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