Political Quotes

The expense as well as the importance of the work renders it a subject proper for the special consideration of Congress.

The same considerations of expense and importance render this also a question for the special decision of Congress.

The documents containing the correspondences on the subject of the foreign edicts against our commerce, with the instructions given to our ministers at London and Paris, are now laid before you.

With the Barbary Powers we continue in harmony, with the exception of an unjustifiable proceeding of the Dey of Algiers toward our consul to that Regency.