“That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.”

“The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.”