politics Quotes

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the declaration of independence.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

I cannot make it better known than it already is that i strongly favor colonization.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the declaration of independence.

If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the... ...