It was not considered a conclusive reason for declining this invitation that the proposal for assembling such a Congress had not first been ...
I shall, indeed, in the first instance, consider the assembly as merely consultative.
Nothing was ever lost by kind treatment.
My first and greatest inducement was to meet in the spirit of kindness and friendship an overture made in that spirit by three sister Republ...
ThatAmericahas a set of primary interests which have none or a remote relation to Europe.
I would have sent ministers to the meeting had it been merely to give them such advice as they might have desired, even with reference to th...
I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information requested by the resolution.
The faith of the United States to foreign powers can not otherwise be pledged.
The purpose of the meeting itself is to deliberate upon the great and common interests of several new and neighboring nations.
But objects of the highest importance, not only to the future welfare of the whole human race, but bearing directly upon the special interes...
To meet the temper with which this proposal was made with a cold repulse was not thought congenial to that warm interest in their welfare wi...
It may be that in the lapse of many centuries no other opportunity so favorable will be presented to the Government of the United States to ...
If it be true that the noblest treaty of peace ever mentioned in history is that by which the Carthagenians were bound to abolish the practi...
