Political Quotes

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

Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the Senate should be convened on Saturday, the 4th day of March next, you are desired to attend at the Senate Chamber, in the city of Washington, on that day, then and there to…

Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present year.