The lawfulness of the practice rests upon the exigencies of the public service; which require that the movements of the ...
The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inher...
In all its various bearings, therefore, I commend the question to Congress as the only human tribunal under Providence p...
My province is to execute and not to make the laws.
My opinion remains unchanged that justice as well as sound policy requires us still to seek a peaceful solution of the q...
The national flag has floated in glory over every sea.
Under its shadow American citizens have found protection and respect in all lands beneath the sun.
I possess no dispensing power.
It has rendered us prosperous in peace and triumphant in war.
I therefore appeal through you to the people of the country to declare in their might that the Union must and shall be p...
Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in...
I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has w...
In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit t...
I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims o...
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th of April last, requesting information concerning ...
I have long foreseen and often forewarned my countrymen of the now impending danger.
My prayer to God is that He would preserve the Constitution and the Union throughout all generations.
The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of th...
