"The expense as well as the importance of the work renders it a subject proper for the special consideration of Congress."
"The same considerations of expense and importance render this also a question for the special decision of Congress."
"The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the legitimate responsibility of good government."
"It can not but be encouraging to those whom the nation has placed in the direction of their affairs to see that their fellow-citizens will press forward in support of their country in proportion as it..."
"I suppose it will be the interest of the United States to encourage the wandering tribes of that country to reduce themselves to fixed habitations whenever they are so disposed."
"The establishment of towns and growing attachments to them will furnish in some degree pledges of their peaceable and friendly conduct."
"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..."
"According to the request expressed by the Senate in their resolution of November 14, I now transmit a report of the Secretary of the Treasury and statement showing, as far as returns have been receive..."
"According to the request of the Senate in their resolution of November 14, that copies should be laid before them of all the orders and decrees of the belligerent powers of Europe, passed since 1791, ..."
"I now transmit to both Houses of Congress a report of the commissioners appointed under the act of March 29, 1806, concerning a road from Cumberland to Ohio, being a statement of the proceedings under..."
"On mature consideration and advice I approved of the proceeding of the governor."
"The documents containing the correspondences on the subject of the foreign edicts against our commerce, with the instructions given to our ministers at London and Paris, are now laid before you."