James Madison actually said...

I transmit, for the like purpose, copies of a letter from Commodore Rodgers to the Secretary of the Navy

examples which ought to impress on the enemy, however brave and powerful, preference of justice and peace to hostility against a country who...

A nation feeling what it owes to itself and to its citizens could never abandon to arbitrary violence on the ocean a class of them which giv...

Too much praise can not be bestowed on that officer and his companions on board for the consummate skill and conspicuous valor by which this...