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Spurious Quotations

A list of fake, inaccurate, and bogus quotations frequently attributed to Thomas Jefferson.

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• A fine spiced pickle...(Spurious Quotation)
• All tyranny needs to gain a foothold...(Spurious Quotation)
• An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people (Spurious Quotation)
• Bad government results from too much government (Spurious Quotation)
• Beer, if drunk with moderation...(Spurious Quotation)
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• Christianity is the best friend of government (Spurious Quotation)
• Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man (Spurious Quotation)
• Democracy is nothing more than mob rule...(Spurious Quotation)
• Dissent is the highest form of patriotism (Spurious Quotation)
• Do you want to know who you are? (Spurious Quotation)
• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty (Spurious Quotation)
• Every man has two countries - his own and France (Spurious Quotation)
• Few die, none resign (Spurious Quotation)
• Free men do not ask permission to bear arms (Spurious Quotation)
• Freedom is lost gradually...(Spurious Quotation)
• Good wine is a necessity of life for me (Spurious Quotation)
• Government big enough to give you everything you want...(Spurious Quotation)
• Government by the majority who participate (Spurious Quotation)
• Governments constantly choose between telling lies...(Spurious Quotation)
• Hideous hermaphroditical character (Spurious Quotation)
• I am a great believer in luck...(Spurious Quotation)
• I stretched the Constitution until it cracked (Spurious Quotation)
• I would rather be judged by 12 farmers than 12 scholars (Spurious Quotation)
• If a law is unjust...(Spurious Quotation)
• If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take...(Spurious Quotation)
• If we are to guard against ignorance... (Spurious Quotation)
• If you want something you have never had (Spurious Quotation)
• In matters of style, swim with the current...(Spurious Quotation)
• Information is the currency of democracy (Spurious Quotation)
• Jewel among the states (Spurious Quotation)
• Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...(Spurious Quotation)
• Making this wine vine known to the public (Spurious Quotation)
• Museum of our soul (Spurious Quotation)
• National Prayer for Peace (Spurious Quotations)
• Near-perfect republic (Spurious Quotation)
• No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying... (Spurious Quotation)
• No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms
• No nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion...(Spurious Quotation)
• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude... (Spurious Quotation)
• Nothing is more unequal...(Spurious Quotations)
• One man with courage is a majority (Spurious Quotation)
• Peace is that brief glorious moment in history...(Spurious Quotation)
• Private Banks (Spurious Quotation)
• Sea View (Spurious Quotation)
• Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp... (Spurious Quotation)
• Spell a word only one way (Spurious Quotation)
• Strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms (Spurious Quotation)
• Superstition of Christianity (Spurious Quotation)
• That government is best which governs least (Spurious Quotation)
• The beauty of the Second Amendment...(Spurious Quotation)
• The Bible is the source of liberty (Spurious Quotation)
• The Christian god is a three headed monster...(Spurious Quotation)
• The democracy will cease to exist... (Spurious Quotation)
• The end of democracy...(Spurious Quotation)
• The first duty of government is the protection of life...(Spurious Quotation)
• The government will one day be corrupt (Spurious Quotation)
• The greatest danger to american freedom (Spurious Quotation)
• The nation was clothed with ample powers ... (Spurious Quotation)
• The natural progress of things...(Spurious Quotations)
• The office of citizen (Spurious Quotation)
• The two enemies of the people are criminals and government...(Spurious Quotation)
• The Unknown Patriot
• The web of mutual obligations between generations...(Spurious Quotation)
• Those who hammer their guns into plows...(Spurious Quotation)
• Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government (Spurious Quotation)
• When government fears the people, there is liberty... (Spurious Quotation)
• When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty (Spurious Quotation)
• When the speech condemns a free press...(Spurious Quotation)
• When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on (Spurious Quotation)
• Widespread poverty and concentrated wealth (Spurious Quotation)
• Without God, liberty will not last (Spurious Quotation)

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