Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"I can not, then, but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system."

"The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes."

"I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of the church or st..."

"We have therefore liberally furnished them with the implements of husbandry and household use."