Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"In pursuance of the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 3d of May last, desiring a statement of expenditures from January 1, 1797."

"I now transmit such statements from the offices of the Secretaries of the Treasury, War, and Navy, where alone these expenditures are entered."

"These are now transmitted, the report and estimates by duplicates; but the plans being single only, I must request an intercommunication of them between the Houses and their return when they shall no ..."

"I lay before you a treaty, which has been agreed to by commissioners duly authorized on the part of the United States and the Creek Nation of Indians, for the extinguishment of the native title to lan..."