Political Quotes

Besides the advantage of placing it under the immediate eye of the Government, it may render its benefits common to the Naval Department, and will furnish opportunities of selecting on better information the characters most qualified to…

I must repeat, therefore, my firm belief that the letters of Nimmo of November 28, 1806, and of John Smith of January, 1807, never came to my hands, and that if such were written (and Nimmo's letter expressly mentions his of November 28)…

The Cherokees readily consented, for a moderate compensation, that the line should be so run as to include all the waters of that river.

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