Thomas Jefferson actually said...

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

The scale on which the Military Academy at West Point was originally established is become too limited to furnish the number of well-instruc...

The want of such characters is already sensibly felt, and will be increased with the enlargement of our plans of military preparation.

they prove more and more the expediency of retaining our vessels, our seamen, and property within our own harbors until the dangers to which...