Thomas Jefferson said...

To secure ourselves by due precautions an augmentation of our military force, as well regular as of volunteer militia, s...

These decrees and orders, taken together, want little of amounting to a declaration that every neutral vessel found on t...

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

The scale on which the Military Academy at West Point was originally established is become too limited to furnish the nu...