Polk Quotes

“John Quincy Adams was convinced that Polk's election meant the end of the civilized world”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,” Lincoln lectured Herndon, “and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“No President who performs his duty faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“The sentiment of nativism, decidedly against foreign-born citizens and frequently anti-Catholic, had recently manifested itself in the American Republican party,”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“Numbering about five hundred men”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“The Democratic party of Jefferson”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“The most famous pronouncement of this sentiment was voiced by a journalist named John L. OSullivan”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“To quell the rush to dinner from the reception area on her first evening as mistress of the house”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“More than a century and a half later”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“n politics”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“Polk found occasion during the ensuing debate to blast the Adams-Clay contention that Jackson was a dangerous “military chieftain.” Edward Everett of Massachusetts noted that if the government was ever destroyed”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“(In their demeanor”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“The agitation of the slavery question is mischievous and wicked, and proceeds from no patriotic motive by its authors,” Polk wrote in late December 1848.”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“He paused to write a five-thousand-word rebuttal.”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

“If the government was ever to be destroyed, Polk concluded, it would be by “the alluring and corrupting influence of executive patronage.”
― Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America