Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Madison regarding revising his (Jefferson’s) senate/congressional address (pre-State of the Union) “not only as to matter, but diction”:
“Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to in complaisance to the purists of New England. But where by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.”