Thomas Jefferson said...

With the Barbary Powers we continue in harmony, with the exception of an unjustifiable proceeding of the Dey of Algiers ...

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

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

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