Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.
In your hands is rightfully placed the sovereignty of the country.
The paper money system of this country may be used as an engine to undermine your free institutions.
There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.
The victory of the injured would not secure to them the blessings of liberty.
I think it my duty to acquiesce therein, and therefore I nominate Alcée La Branche, of Louisiana, to be chargé d'affaires to the Republic of...
I am constrained to retain the bill, without acting definitively thereon
My reasons for this step may be fully understood
I can not think it proper, in a matter of such vital interest, to approve a bill so liable to diversity of interpretations
Amid the duties constantly pressing on me, to give the subject that deliberate consideration which its importance demands
To the House of Representatives: I transmit a letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, accompanied by various documents, in relation to ...