Thomas Jefferson said...

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of ...

I do hereby further require and command all officers having authority, civil or military, and all other persons, civil o...

such combinations are too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vest...

Besides the advantage of placing it under the immediate eye of the Government, it may render its benefits common to the ...