Political Quotes

Until further orders from the President, you will assign no officer to the permanent command of the Military Division of the Missouri.

As requested in this communication, General Grant is instructed in writing not to obey any order from the War Department assumed to be issued by the direction of the President unless such order is known by the General Commanding the armies…

I will only notice one more statement in your letter of the 3d instant—that the performance of the promises which it is alleged were made by you would have involved you in the resistance of law.

I can not give my assent to a measure which proposes to deprive any person 'restrained of his or her liberty in violation of the Constitution or of any treaty. or law of the United States' from the right of appeal to the highest judicial…