Spurious Quotations
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A list of fake, inaccurate, and bogus quotations frequently attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
- 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)
- Chain Email with 10 Jefferson Quotations
- 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)