Political Quotes

I congratulate the country upon so happy a termination of a condition of things which seemed at one time seriously to threaten the public peace.

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

I regard the question involved in these proceedings as one of vast magnitude.

I did not consider the irregularities into which the surveyor-general had fallen as of sufficient magnitude to induce his dismissal from office at the time that the papers reached me