"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 their own interests, not involving ours."
"The faith of the United States to foreign powers can not otherwise be pledged."
"I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information requested by the resolution."
"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 with which the people and Government of the Union had hitherto..."
"Nothing was ever lost by kind treatment."
"But objects of the highest importance, not only to the future welfare of the whole human race, but bearing directly upon the special interests of this Union, will engage the deliberations of the congr..."
"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 subserve the benevolent purposes of Divine Providence; to di..."
"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 stipulat..."
"The acceptance of this invitation, therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy of Washington, is directly deducible from and conformable to it."
"ThatAmericahas a set of primary interests which have none or a remote relation to Europe."
"The purpose of the meeting itself is to deliberate upon the great and common interests of several new and neighboring nations."