American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

In my proper character, an officer of the United States army.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.