James Monroe said...

Having already suggested my impression that in filling offices newly created, to which on no principle whatever anyone c...

We see, on the contrary, that every corps of the Army and staff was to be reorganized, and most of them reduced in offic...

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

In executing this very delicate and important trust I acted with the utmost precaution.