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“The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.”

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Disunion by force is treason.

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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

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It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to…

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Desperate courage makes One a majority.

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The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage;…

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“The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude…

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Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

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Temporize not! It is always injurious.

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The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but…

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Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils…

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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent…

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To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such…

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I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.

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Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest…

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