263 Quotes About Presidential

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

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.

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.

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

Let them impeach and be damned.

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

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.