Political Quotes

I lay before the Senate, for their consideration and advice as to a ratification, a convention to regulate the commerce between the United States and Great Britain, signed by their respective plenipotentiaries on the 3d of July last.

This source of national independence and wealth I anxiously recommend to the prompt and constant guardianship of Congress.

Occurrences having taken place which shew that the statutory provisions for the dispensation of criminal justice are deficient.

Considering that the sum of which the million of livres in question made a part was a gratuitous grant from the French Government to the United States, and the declaration of that Government that that part of the grant was put into the…