Spurious Quotations

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

72 Entries

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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