"It therefore becomes my duty to bring the subject to the serious consideration of Congress."
"I have determined to issue my proclamation of the 10th of December last."
"I respectfully recommend that in the printing, if deemed necessary, such a discrimination be made as to avoid that inconvenience, preferring this course to withholding from the Senate any part of the ..."
"It is the acknowledged attribute of free institutions that under them the empire of reason and law is substituted for the power of the sword."
"I transmit herewith to the Senate, for their advice and consent as to the ratification of the same, treaties that have been concluded by commissioners duly appointed on the part of the United States w..."
"I also transmit the journal of the commissioners who negotiated these treaties."
"I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, containing the information required."
"I transmit herewith, for the consideration and advice of the Senate as to their ratification, treaties that have been concluded by commissioners duly appointed on the part of the United States with th..."
"I lay before the Senate, for its consideration and advice, a treaty of amity and commerce between the United States of America and the Republic of Chili, concluded at Santiago on the 16th day of May, ..."
"Had there been incorporated in the bill no provisions for works of a different description, depending on principles which extend the power of making appropriations to every object which the discretion..."
"It is obvious that such appropriations involve the sanction of a principle that concedes to the General Government an unlimited power over the subject of internal improvements."