Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"By indications received from him they are now found."

"I transmit them to Congress, as a further proof of the increasing dangers to our navigation and commerce."

"I have particularly contemplated, with this view, the acquisition of the eastern moiety of the peninsula between the lakes Michigan, Huron, and Erie, extending it to the Connecticut Reserve so soon as..."

"Still urged by their creditors, as well as by their own desire to be liberated from debt, they at length proposed to make a cession which should be to our convenience."