Political Quotes

The responsibility of deciding this question is now devolved upon you.

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

Under every view which I have been able to take of the subject, I think that the interests of our common constituents the people of all the States, and a love of the Union, left the Executive no other alternative than to negotiate the…

In view of the magnitude and importance of our national concerns, actual and prospective, in China, I submit to the consideration of Congress the expediency of providing for the preservation and cultivation of the subsisting relations of…