Political Quotes

According to my judgment it cannot be derived from either of those powers, nor from all of them united, and in consequence it does not exist.

We see, on the contrary, that every corps of the Army and staff was to be reorganized, and most of them reduced in officers and men, and that in arranging the officers from the old to the new corps full power was granted to the President to take them from any and every corps of the former establishment and place them in the latter.

In executing this law I had no personal object to accomplish or feeling to gratify--no one to retain, no one to remove.

requesting to be furnished with a copy of the judicial proceedings in the United States court for the district of Louisiana in the case of the French slave ship La Pensee.