Andrew Johnson actually said...

It should induce us to pause in a course of legislation which, looking solely to the attainment of political ends, fails to consider the rig...

It reduces the whole population of the ten States--all persons, of every color, sex, and condition, and every stranger within their limits--...

The history of the world has been written in vain if it does not teach us that unrestrained authority can never be safely trusted in human h...

The subject was long and earnestly debated in the Senate, and the early construction of the Constitution was, nevertheless, freely accepted ...