Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"The dangers to our country arising from the contests of other nations and the urgency of making preparation for whatever events might affect our relations with them have been intimated in preceding me..."

"To secure ourselves by due precautions an augmentation of our military force, as well regular as of volunteer militia, seems to be expedient."

"If an increase of force be now approved, I submit to their consideration the outlines of a plan proposed in the inclosed letter from the Secretary of War."

"The precise extent of that augmentation can not as yet be satisfactorily suggested, but that no time may be lost, and especially at a season deemed favorable to the object, I submit to the wisdom of t..."