Thomas Jefferson said...

To prevent altogether the entrance of large vessels, a line of blocks across the harbor has been contemplated.

The works undertaken at New York are calculated to annoy and endanger any naval force which shall enter the harbor.

The favorable reception of the proposition to Great Britain was the less to be doubted, as her orders of council had not...

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