Political Quotes

The country itself, thus obtained, is of incalculable value in an agricultural and commercial point of view.

For the Executive to assume such a power would be to assume a power of the most dangerous character.

I also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of the nature of that which existed in Rhode Island on which side is the majority of the people or as to the extent of the…

Texas herself wills it; and the Executive of the United States, concurring with her, has seen no sufficient reason to avoid the consummation of an act esteemed to be so desirable by both.