[The Urban Sombrero]

You looked that up so let's not act as if you remember something that happened way before you were born. I've heard the argument and it is at best an argument.

Actually, that particular factoid came up in a class, if I remember, in a 1987 political science class.

And, actually, I researched it. The quote does not exist. I don't doubt that Jefferson believed in limits on governmental power, but he never uttered nor penned those particular words.