Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality..

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me..

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North..

Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden ….

If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebo….

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people..

If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!.

I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to p….

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor..

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws..

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country..

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one..

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it..

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country..

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political ….

The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious sett….

Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my offici….

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. Th….

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fat….

The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the emphatic words. Th….

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests..