James Madison actually said...

"These resources are amply sufficient to bring the war to an honorable issue."

"The impressions on me are strengthened by such an evidence that my faithful endeavors to discharge my arduous duties have been favorably estimated."

"If the reputation of our arms has been thrown under clouds on the other, presaging flashes of heroic enterprise assure us that nothing is wanting to correspondent triumphs there also but the disciplin..."

"The war has been waged on our part with scrupulous regard to all these obligations, and in a spirit of liberality which was never surpassed."