Political Quotes

According to my judgment it cannot be derived from either of those powers, nor from all of them united, and in consequence it does not exist.

Having already suggested my impression that in filling offices newly created, to which on no principle whatever anyone could have a claim of right, Congress could not under the Constitution restrain the free selection of the President from the whole body of his fellow-citizens, I shall only further remark that if that impression is well founded all objection to these appointments must cease.

I have thought that the United States should act with a generous spirit; that they should omit nothing which should comport with a liberal construction of the instrument and likewise be in accordance with the just rights of those tribes.

I now transmit a report from the Secretary or State, containing the information embraced by that resolution.