Political Quotes

I utterly repudiate the idea, in terms as emphatic as I can employ, that those laws are not to be enforced or those guaranties complied with because the President may believe that the right of suffrage or any other great popular right is either too restricted or too broadly enlarged.

With equal, if not greater, propriety might the United States demand of other governments to surrender their numerous and valuable acquisitions.

I have great pleasure in submitting to the Senate, for its ratification and approval, a treaty which has been concluded between Mr. Cushing, the United States commissioner, and the Chinese Empire.

I have to inform the House that the Executive did not deem it his duty to interfere with the naval and military forces of the United States