James Monroe said...

In executing this law I had no personal object to accomplish or feeling to gratify--no one to retain, no one to remove.

I am aware that many officers of great merit, having the strongest claims on their country, have been reduced and others...

I transmit a report from the Secretary of War, together with the annual return of the militia of the United States, and ...

Having executed the act entitled 'An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States' on gre...