Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm-- The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.

While I concur with the Synod in the efficacy of prayer, and in the hope that our country may be preserved from the attacks of pestilence 'and that the judgmen…

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United…

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

I hate to waste a really good threat.

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

He was not only the most brilliant strategist of all our generals, but he had a good political sense. A man of that quality was too difficult for Hitler to swa…