Thomas Jefferson actually said...

To prevent altogether the entrance of large vessels, a line of blocks across the harbor has been contemplated.

The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the legitimate responsibility of good government.

I suppose it will be the interest of the United States to encourage the wandering tribes of that country to reduce themselves to fixed habit...

The establishment of towns and growing attachments to them will furnish in some degree pledges of their peaceable and friendly conduct.