If the bill passes into a law, the two companies of light dragoons will be from that moment legally out of service.

It is generally agreed that some cavalry, either militia or regular, will be necessary.

It will be inconvenient and injurious to the public to dismiss the light dragoons as soon as notice of the law can be conveyed to them.

Under these circumstances, to discharge the dragoons does not seem to comport with economy.

I lay before you for your consideration a treaty which has been negotiated and concluded on the 29th day of June last by Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens, and George Clymer, commissioners on behalf of the United States, with the Creek…

To such men I shall cheerfully yield the palm of genius and talents to serve our common country.

None can serve it with purer intentions than I have done or with a more disinterested zeal.

Those services, and greater had I possessed ability to render them, were due to the unanimous calls of my country, and its approbation is my abundant reward.

The foundation of our national policy will be laid on the solid basis of the people's will.

The protection of individual rights is the cornerstone of a free society.

Good government is built on the principles of justice and equality.

Let us never forget that government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.