James K. Polk

“One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.”

“The Senate are a branch of the treaty-making power, and by consulting them in advance of his own action upon important measures of foreign policy which may ultimately come before them for their consideration, the President secures harmony of action between that body and himself.”

“I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.”

“It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.”

“I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government.”