Political Quotes

I transmit, for your constitutional action, a report from the War Department, accompanied by a treaty with a portion of the New York Indians.

I can not think it proper, in a matter of such vital interest, to approve a bill so liable to diversity of interpretations

Every government and the people of all countries should feel it their highest happiness to enjoy an opportunity of thus manifesting their love of each other and their interest in the general principles which apply to them all as members of the common family of man.

My reasons for this step may be fully understood