Thomas Jefferson said...

I am in the habit of noting daily in the list kept for that purpose the letters I receive daily by the names of the writ...

I now communicate, confidentially, such supplementary portions of the same correspondences as I deem improper for public...

The works undertaken at New York are calculated to annoy and endanger any naval force which shall enter the harbor.

That no means might be omitted to produce this salutary effect, I lost no time in availing myself of the act authorizing...