Political Quotes

To the Senate of the United States: I transmit, for your constitutional action, a report from the War Department, accompanied by a treaty with the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians.

I can not think it proper, in a matter of such vital interest, to approve a bill so liable to diversity of interpretations

I am constrained to retain the bill, without acting definitively thereon

To the House of Representatives: I transmit a letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, accompanied by various documents, in relation to a survey recently made of the mouths of the Mississippi River under a law of the last session of…