Political Quotes

I have to state that having referred the resolution to the Secretary of State, and it appearing, by a report from him, that no such document had been deposited among the archives of the Department, I examined and found among my private…

I transmit to the House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State

The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequate power.

This power can be granted only by an amendment to the Constitution and in the mode prescribed by it.