It is therefore agreed between the said parties that in the event of any such obstructions happening it shall be lawful ...
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:
The ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America by the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantat...
I therefore nominate M, de Poiery to be a captain by brevet.
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in ev...
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly consid...
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the Republican model of Government are justly consider...
I cannot conceive a rank more honorable than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people—the...
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
My movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to th...
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government * * * whenever things get so far wr...
A nation without a national government is, in my view, an awful spectacle.
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts.
The judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Const...
