Thomas Jefferson said...

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

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

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

That no means might be omitted to produce this salutary effect, I lost no time in availing myself of the act authorizing...