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 hereby withdraw all the nominations on which the Senate has not decided until I can make a more full communication and...

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

Through the whole of this contest the United States have remained neutral, and have fulfilled with the utmost impartiali...