"I shall continue to apply my best exertions to their application and enforcement."
"In thus employing my best faculties to exercise the power with which I am invested to avoid evils and to effect the greatest attainable good for our common country I feel that I may trust to your cord..."
"I have been compelled to withhold from it my signature, and it has therefore failed to become a law."
"I avail myself of this early opportunity to return to the Senate, in which it originated, the bill entitled 'An act providing for the final settlement of the claims of States for interest on advances ..."
"With these reasons and considerations I return the bill to the Senate."
"Although the pestilence which had traversed the Old World has entered our limits and extended its ravages over much of our land, it has pleased Almighty God to mitigate its severity and lessen the num..."
"Our best wishes on all occasions, our good offices when required, will be afforded to promote the domestic tranquillity and foreign peace of all nations with whom we have any intercourse."
"This campaign has evinced the efficient organization of the Army and its capacity for prompt and active service."
"It gives me pleasure to congratulate you upon your return to the seat of Government for the purpose of discharging your duties to the people of the United States."
"I can not too cordially congratulate Congress and my fellow citizens on the near approach of that memorable and happy event – the extinction of the public debt of this great and free nation."
"If those which are clearly granted shall be found incompetent to the ends of its creation, it can at any time apply for their enlargement; and there is no probability that such an application, if foun..."