Political Quotes

I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of the United States according to the latest returns received by the Department of War.

His influence in negotiations for peace may be of value to the United States should arrangements of any sort affecting them be contemplated by other powers in the present extraordinary state of the world;

The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the legitimate responsibility of good government.

I transmit to Congress a letter recently received from our minister at the Court of St. James, covering one to him from the British secretary of state, with his reply.