Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"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..."

"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution; I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government . . . , I mean an additio..."

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