Political Quotes

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

Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present year.

such combinations are too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by the laws of the United States

It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification if our last communications from Europe had enabled me to inform you that the belligerent nations, whose disregard of neutral rights has been so destructive to our…