Political Quotes

I submit it to your mature consideration whether, in view of the important benefits arising from the treaty to the trade and commerce of the United States and to their agriculture, it would not comport with sound policy to adopt that…

I feel it to be my duty to communicate, for your consideration, the rejected treaty.

I did not consider the irregularities into which the surveyor-general had fallen as of sufficient magnitude to induce his dismissal from office at the time that the papers reached me

I congratulate the country upon so happy a termination of a condition of things which seemed at one time seriously to threaten the public peace.