For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!

Let them impeach and be damned.

Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor creates wealth and contributes to the public resources, are worth more to the United States than if they had been reserved as a solitude for future purchasers.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.

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.