John Quincy Adams: “I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information requested by…”

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 practice of sacrificing their own children because it was stipulated in favor of human nature, I can not…

But it is a body of dislocated members, without the vigor of unity and having little of uniformity but the name.

The faith of the United States to foreign powers can not otherwise be pledged.

ThatAmericahas a set of primary interests which have none or a remote relation to Europe.