Authors: James Monroe

1789–1825

Annual Message to Congress (1818)

President’s Speech, 15th Cong., 2nd sess., Annals of Congress, S11. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=033/llac033.db&recNum=3 Fellow—Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: The auspicious circumstances under which you will commence the duties of the

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1825–1860

Annual Message to Congress (1817)

President’s Speech, 15th Cong., 1st sess., Annals of Congress, S12. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=031/llac031.db&recNum=3 Fellow—Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: At no period of our political existence had we so much cause

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1789–1825

Inaugural Address (1821)

James Monroe, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206347 Fellow-Citizens: I SHALL not attempt to describe the grateful emotions which the new

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1789–1825

Inaugural Address (1817)

James Monroe, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206322 I SHOULD be destitute of feeling if I was not deeply affected by

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