Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"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."

"The right to trial by jury is the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."