James Madison actually said...

"In recommending to the National Legislature this resort to additional taxes I feel great satisfaction in the assurance that our constituents, who have already displayed so much zeal and firmness in th..."

"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."

"Not to contend for such a stake is to surrender our equality with other powers on the element common to all."

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