Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"This convention is now laid before the Senate for their advice and consent as to its ratification."

"On the impressment of our seamen our remonstrances have never been intermitted."

"The rights of a neutral to carry on commercial intercourse with every part of the dominions of a belligerent permitted by the laws of the country (with the exception of blockaded ports and contraband ..."

"He has therefore been instructed to urge this subject anew, to bring it more fully to the bar of reason, and to insist on rights too evident and too important to be surrendered."