"This government cannot much longer play a game in which it stakes all, and its enemies stake nothing. Those enemies m…"

"We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends …"

"Let us then turn this Government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it."

"Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destr…"

"Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary ca…"

"[T]here will be no blood shed unless it be forced' upon the Government. The Government will not use force unless forc…"

"One of the greatest perplexities of the Government is to avoid receiving troops faster than it can provide for them. …"

"I am a patient man — always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for …"

"It is the duty of every government to give protection to its citizens, of whatever class, color, or condition, and es…"

"The United States is on pace to spend over $7 trillion over the next ten years for the Pentagon. To put that number i…"