Thomas Jefferson actually said...

I have thought it due to the Senate as well as to myself to explain to them the circumstances which have withheld from their knowledge, as t...

These aggravations necessarily lead to the policy either of never admitting an armed vessel into our harbors or of maintaining in every harb...

I shall think it my duty to lay before you the proceedings and the evidence publicly exhibited on the arraignment of the principal offenders...

I did not hesitate, therefore, to authorize engagements for such supplements to our existing stock as would render it adequate to the emerge...