"The safety of the United States under divine protection ought to rest on the basis of systematic and solid arrangements, exposed as little as possible to the hazards of fortuitous circumstances."
"Measures have been taken pursuant to that resolution for procuring some of the most necessary artists, together with the requisite apparatus."
"I therefore required your attendance to receive nominations of the several officers necessary to put the Federal Government into motion in that State."
"For this purpose I nominate Nathaniel Chipman to be judge of the district of Vermont; Stephen Jacobs to be attorney for the United States in the district of Vermont; Lewis R. Morris to be marshal of t..."
"Gentlemen of the Senate: The act for the admission of the State of Vermont into this Union having fixed on this as the day of its admission, it was thought that this would also be the first day on whi..."
"I have therefore thought it expedient to nominate Thomas Auldjo to be vice-consul for the United States at the port of Poole, in Great Britain."
"I also nominate James Yard, of Pennsylvania, to be consul for the United States in the island of Santa Cruz."
"I will proceed to take measures for the ransom of our citizens in captivity at Algiers."
"The importance of this last to the liberty and property of our citizens induces me to urge it on your earliest attention."
"I shall think it a less evil than to disgust a government so friendly and so interesting to us as that of Portugal."
"I have therefore nominated David Humphreys minister resident from the United States to Her Most Faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal."
"I employed Mr. Gouverneur Morris, who was on the spot, and without giving him any definite character, to enter informally into the conferences before mentioned."