Thomas Jefferson

State of the Union Address

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: Circumstances, fellow-citizens, which seriously threatened the peace of our…

Special Message on Gun-Boats

In compliance with the request of the House of Representatives, expressed in their resolution of the 5th instant, I…

Special Message on the Burr Conspiracy

Agreeably to the request of the House of Representatives, communicated in their resolution of the sixteenth instant, I proceed…

Address to the Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation

MY FRIENDS AND CHILDREN, CHIEFLY OF THE CHEROKEE NATION, Having now finished our business an to mutual satisfaction, I cannot…

Second Inaugural Address

PROCEEDING, fellow-citizens, to that qualification which the Constitution requires before my entrance on the charge again conferred on me,…

State of the Union Address

TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES: In calling you together, fellow citizens, at an earlier…

First Annual Message

Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: It is a circumstance of sincere gratification to me that on…

First Inaugural Address

Friends and Fellow-Citizens: CALLED upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country,…

The Declaration of Independence

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which…