[Zuben Elgenubi]

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

-- Thomas Jefferson

[Sherman Logan]

Spurious quotation, first printed in 1952.

Not disagreeing with the sentiment, just pointing out TJ didn’t say it.

http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/government-big-enough-to-give-you-everything-you-wantquotation