The American continents...are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
If I knew what brand of whiskey he [Grant] drinks, I would send a barrel or so to my other generals.
Gentlemen, you will allow me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray, but almost blind, in the service of my country.
If I withdraw Anderson from Sumter, I can travel home to Wheatland by the light of my own burning effigies.
I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay, and I didn't hang John Calhoun.
My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office [the vice-presidency] that ever the imagination of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected. To this correction I stand committed, so far as Executive influence can avail.
Let them impeach and be damned!
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
Some folks are silly enough to have formed a plan to make a President of the U.S. out of this clerk and clodhopper.
If it takes the entire army and navy of the United States to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.
The cup of forbearance has been exhausted...After reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood on American soil.
My fellow citizens, the President is dead, but the Government lives and God Omnipotent reigns.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Tell him [Santa Anna] to go to hell...General _____ never surrenders.
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is...the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
It is a national disgrace that our Presidents...should be cast adrift, and perhaps be compelled to keep a corner grocery store for subsistence...We elect a man to the presidency, expect him to be honest, to give up a lucrative profession, perhaps, and after we have done with him we let him go into seclusion and perhaps poverty.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.
He serves his party best who serves the country best.
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette--the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
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