Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"Until I receive full consent to a free choice of route through the whole distance I have thought it safest neither to accept nor reject finally the partial report of the commissioners."

"The progress which they made in the execution of the work during the last season will appear in their report now communicated to Congress."

"Some matters suggested in the report belong exclusively to the Legislature."

"we may now estimate with tolerable certainty the means derived from the Ohio and its waters toward the accomplishment of the purposes of Mr. Burr."