It is manifest that if the power which this law gives had been withheld the public interest would frequently suffer very...
It was wise to make a provision which would enable the President to avoid a total suspension of business in the interval...
It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can...
The power to carry on the business of the Government by means of a provisional appointment when a vacancy occurs is expr...
I therefore appeal through you to the people of the country to declare in their might that the Union must and shall be p...
In all its various bearings, therefore, I commend the question to Congress as the only human tribunal under Providence p...
My opinion remains unchanged that justice as well as sound policy requires us still to seek a peaceful solution of the q...
Under its shadow American citizens have found protection and respect in all lands beneath the sun.
The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inher...
My province is to execute and not to make the laws.
Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in...
The national flag has floated in glory over every sea.
It has rendered us prosperous in peace and triumphant in war.
I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has w...
I possess no dispensing power.
In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit t...
This is essentially a People's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form...
I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims o...
