Political Quotes

I now render to Congress the account of the fund established for defraying the contingent expenses of Government for the year 1808.

The same considerations of expense and importance render this also a question for the special decision of Congress.

That no means might be omitted to produce this salutary effect, I lost no time in availing myself of the act authorizing a suspension, in whole or in part, of the several embargo laws.

His influence in negotiations for peace may be of value to the United States should arrangements of any sort affecting them be contemplated by other powers in the present extraordinary state of the world;