Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"Knowledge is power. . . . If a nation expects to be ignorant--and free--in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in the State of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

"There does not exist an engine so corruptive of the Government and so demoralizing of the Nation as a public debt. It will bring on us more ruin at home than all the enemies from abroad against whom t..."

"Then I say the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right."