Political Quotes

I am aware that as the consent of the legislature of the State to the purchase of the site may not in some instances have been previously obtained, exclusive legislation can not be exercised therein by Congress until that consent is given.

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.

These have been much exceeded by the cost of the work done, a fact not known to me till the close of the season.

Their desire of entering into connection with the United States and of getting a trading house established there induced a ready consent to the proposition.