James Monroe said...

The measure is proposed under a thorough conviction that it is in strict accord with the law of nations, that it is just...

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

Sensible of what I owed to my country, I felt strongly the obligation of observing the utmost impartiality in selecting ...

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