Although the health laws of the States should be found to need no present revisal by Congress, yet commerce claims that their attention be e...
Reason revolts at such inconsistency, and the neutral having equal right with the belligerent to decide the question.
A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country, and of the information respecting them hitherto obtained, will be...
We must join in the unprofitable contest of trying which party can do the other the most harm.
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be ...
In all events, it will replace the advances we shall have made.
I shall now enter on the duties to which my fellow-citizens have again called me, and shall proceed in the spirit of those principles which ...
I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found ...
The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes.
What farmer, what mechanic, what laborer ever sees a taxgatherer of the United States?
We have therefore liberally furnished them with the implements of husbandry and household use.
In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Gover...
War will then be but a suspension of useful works, and a return to a state of peace, a return to the progress of improvement.
My conscience tells me I have on every occasion acted up to that declaration according to its obvious import and to the understanding of eve...
But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively?
I know that the acquisition of Louisiana had been disapproved by some from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would...
No occasion having arisen for making use of any part of the balance of $18,560 unexpended on the 31st day of December, 1803, when the last a...
It will be perceived that some of these are not of recent dates, and that from the States of Maryland, Delaware, and Tennessee no returns ar...
