Thomas Jefferson said...

The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the legitimate responsibility of good government.

Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present ...

I suppose it will be the interest of the United States to encourage the wandering tribes of that country to reduce thems...

It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification if our last communications from Europe had enabled m...