Political Quotes

I transmit, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 12th of March last, a communication of the Secretary of War, accompanied by such information as could be obtained in relation to the military and naval preparations of the British authorities on the northern frontier of the United States from Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean.

Thus believing, it has been my purpose to secure to the whole people and to every member of the Confederacy, by general, salutary, and equal laws alone, the benefit of those republican institutions which it was the end and aim of the Constitution to establish...

Our safest reliance for financial efficiency and independence has, on the contrary, been found to consist in ample resources unencumbered with debt...

A rigid and persevering abstinence from all interference with the domestic and political relations of other States...