It was first signed into law by Thomas Jefferson as president of the United States way back when, like in 1806.

This is a reference to the Barbary Wars of the early 1800s, where Jefferson sent Marines to fight against pirates in the waters near Tripoli. The idea is supposed to be that these pirates posed a national security threat.

They sent Thomas Jefferson during the Revolutionary War for two years to France with a ship full of little American flags.

If we allow private central banks to control the currency and credit, Americans will wake up homeless. Yeah, just type in Americans will wake up homeless.

And Thomas Jefferson, when the previous president to him, Adams, set it up to where they were a tyranny. He just did the Judiciary Act of 1802 and fired every one of them and then brought in new judges.

And so Jefferson just fired every one of them. He got Congress to pass a law and fired their asses. Was Thomas Jefferson a dictator? No, they set up a tyrannical judiciary that was Article 3 under one president through Congress. So he had the other Congress go, no, you're fired. Then they reconstituted the federal judiciary and put people in that were not put in by the previous president to continue his presidency.

And Thomas Jefferson said, screw that, send the Marines. Took two years, and we kicked their ass and had to invade a bunch of Barbary coast bases and had to kill them.

As Thomas Jefferson said, America could never be conquered from without. We would have to be rotted from within.

And Thomas Jefferson said he was asked by a newspaper reporter to actually research and actually found the original article or scans of the National Archives. And he's asked by a newspaper reporter. What is the level of tyranny people will accept? And he said the level of tyranny you will accept is the level... It is unlimited, basically. He said it's unlimited. It's all up to the individual they'll put up with.

So we've talked about this a bunch, but that's not a Thomas Jefferson quote. That is Frederick Douglass.

It'd have to be, I have sworn on the... Altar of God. Eternal resistance against every form of tyranny over the mind of men. Thomas Jefferson.

An inventor, and he was inventing things. He was an engineer. He invented the swivel chair and invented a bunch of things too while he's writing the Declaration of Independence.

And inside, I found a manuscript. No shit. An unpublished manuscript written by Thomas Jefferson.

Anyway, knowing this, that not only does voice voting go back to the literal beginning of the House of Representatives, it also predates the American government.

Wait, wait, that's Jefferson, actually, right? Yeah, it was not Kennedy. No, it was Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson, yeah. Talking about robot birds. The first head of the CIA reanimated Thomas Jefferson. It was, theoretically, Alvin B. Cleaver, the internal communications director. His phone was tapped, and this article was far more measured. Cleaver is believed to have said, quote, we've killed about 1.1 billion so far, and the best thing is, the robot birds we've released in their place have done such a good job that nobody even suspects a thing.

We've been over this before, but that isn't a Thomas Jefferson quote. It's from a 1914 debate against socialism delivered by John Basil Barnhill that over the years has been misattributed to a bunch of people like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson.

In the 1800 election, he was named president by the House. Sure. Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr had died in the Electoral College, so the decision was made by a vote in the House.

That's a fake Thomas Jefferson quote. That was actually a Frederick Douglass quote that Alex is just repurposing.

And now we're wondering why they're getting away with even more because we're Thomas Jefferson said the level of tyranny you will live under is the exact amount you will accept. That's a Thomas Jefferson quote.

The quote being referenced here is: quote, the laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature, they disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Now, it is true that that line appears in Thomas Jefferson's legal commonplace book, but it's a complete misstatement to say that the words are Jefferson's. They appear in his book because he was quoting a passage from the super influential legal reformer of the time, Caesar Beccaria. And it's from his 1764 publication, Essay on Crimes and Punishments.

That being said, this is not a Thomas Jefferson quote, and that will become obvious when I read you Heston's full sentence. Quote, The smoke in the air of our Concord bridges and Pearl Harbors is always smelled first by the farmers, who come from their simple homes to find the fire and fight. Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, a good 115 years before Pearl Harbor was attacked. Dan, how dare you desecrate the grave of Thomas Jefferson? He knew! But that's clearly the speech that Alex was talking about. He said they hate him because he quotes Thomas Jefferson about the farmers. Right. That's where he's referencing farmers in that speech, and that is not a quote from Thomas Jefferson.

He was actually a passionate enthusiast about farming, but that's not the whole story. In a November 3rd, 1807 entry from John Quincy Adams' diary, he tells the story of going to a dinner party that he had attended. Quote, there was a usual dissertation upon wines, not very edifying. Mr. Jefferson said that he had always been extremely fond of agriculture, but knew nothing about it. This seems to be a really good description of Jefferson's relationship with farming. He was into it, but he knew nothing about it, and he wasn't going to bother to learn. He wrote a letter to William Branch Giles on April 27, 1795, saying, quote, If you visit me as a farmer, it must be as a con disciple, for I am but a learner. An eager one indeed, but yet desperate, being too old to learn a new craft.

In a letter to John Doherty from June 27, 1810, he said, quote, I think it's the duty of farmers who are wealthier than others to give those less so the benefit of any improvements they can introduce gratis.

I'm pretty sure... Thomas Jefferson would have been super into intellectual property rights now. Well, maybe. Patent rights. I'm sure that he would have been totally into it.

Again, once again, we find Alex Jones quoting Thomas Jefferson, and I want you to guess, is this a real quote? No, it is not. Dan, I will tell you right now, it is not. Easiest trivia game in the world. Yeah, that one was very not hard. For the thousandth time, this is not a real quote.

The context of that quote is about, like, being against religious tyranny. Yeah. The idea of the church. Thomas Jefferson's quote, in the proper context of that quote, was about the church. It wasn't about the state. It wasn't anything like that. It was, this is also a form of tyranny over the minds of man, and I have sworn eternal vigilance against that.

That's a fake quote!