While we're on the subject of writings that are frequently decontextualized in order to suit partisan opportunistic gains, many of the "quotes" frequently attributed to Thomas Jefferson — a guy ...

U.S. President Thomas Jefferson once said: “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything that you have.” As Anne Berkes, the author of ...

Thomas Jefferson said "when the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Rating: Misattributed (About this rating?) In the summer of ...

A viral Instagram post quotes Jefferson as saying ... greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution," and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation has previously ...

The Kentucky Republican has, after all, been caught pushing fake quotes from Thomas Jefferson ... is a secular document that created a secular government. Period. Full stop.

“Thomas Jefferson’s aspirations and imperfections embody the promises and challenges of the American democratic experiment in self-government," Andrew Davenport, a historian and descendant of ...

Former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson once said, "Religious institutions that use government power in support ... 1777] [Quote] | Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters.” Monticello.Org, https ...

He quotes from a British guest at a dinner partner with Jefferson ... of men nurtured in self-government seemed to him much the lesser evil." Alf Mapp writes in Thomas Jefferson: America's ...

"By early 1799, both parties, Republican and Federalist, were convinced of the other's determination to subvert the government and overthrow the Constitution," writes Thomas Jefferson’s ...

and he met with various revolutionaries in secret while serving King George III in the colony’s government. What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Thomas Jefferson has shades of the History ...