"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."
"But amid this general prosperity and splendid success the dangers of which he warned us are becoming every day more evident."
"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 Texas."
"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 a survey recently made of the mouths of the Mississippi Rive..."
"In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th ultimo, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied."