John J. Crittenden quotes
-
“I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.”
-- John J. CrittendenSource : In Congress, when President Polk sent a message after the defeat of the Mexican General Arista by General Taylor, May, 1846.
-
“Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which we now fear, originates chiefly from questions growing out of the respective rights of the different States and the unfortunate subject of slavery...”
-- John J. Crittenden
-
“What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.”
-
“Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.”
Source : Carolyn Wells (1908). “The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909”
You may also like:
-
Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President -
Charles Sumner
Former United States Senator -
Daniel Webster
Former United States Senator -
Franklin Pierce
14th U.S. President -
Frederick Douglass
Orator -
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author -
Henry Clay
Former United States Representative -
Hinton Rowan Helper
Author -
James Buchanan
15th U.S. President -
Jefferson Davis
Former President of the Confederate States of America -
John Brown
Abolitionist -
John C. Calhoun
Former United States Representative -
Mary Todd Lincoln
Former First Lady of the United States -
Millard Fillmore
13th U.S. President -
Preston Brooks
Advocate -
Richard Mentor Johnson
Former Vice President of the United States -
Roger Brooke Taney
Former Chief Justice of the United States -
Stephen A. Douglas
Former U.S. Representative -
William H. Seward
Former Governor of New York -
Zachary Taylor
12th U.S. President