Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"The care of human life and its happiness, and not its destruction, is the chief and only object of good government."

"We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant's books, so that every Member of Congress and every man of any mind in the Union should be able to comprehend the..."

"There is in fact no subject to which a Member of Congress may not have the occasion to refer."

"I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating our condition, promoting our virtues, and advancing the happiness of man."