Thomas Jefferson said...

With the Barbary Powers we continue in harmony, with the exception of an unjustifiable proceeding of the Dey of Algiers ...

I now communicate, confidentially, such supplementary portions of the same correspondences as I deem improper for public...

To prevent altogether the entrance of large vessels, a line of blocks across the harbor has been contemplated.

such combinations are too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vest...