1411 - Quotes

I just got an email full of fake quotes. It's one of those 'love it or leave it' emails that promotes WASP values. Here's one quote from it..

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

Here's what I found at http://wiki.monticello.org..

This sentence comes from Thomas Jefferson's three drafts of the Virginia Constitution. The text does vary slightly in each draft:

First Draft: "No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms."[1]

Second Draft: "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands or tenements]."[2]

Third Draft: "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands or tenements]"[3]

This sentence does not appear in the Virginia Constitution as adopted.

Note: This sentence is often seen paired with the following: "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." That sentence does not appear in the Virginia Constitution drafts or text as adopted, nor in any other Jefferson writings that we know of.

Here's another quote..

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

Here's what the Wiki had to say about that one..

Earliest known appearance in print: 1986

And then this..

Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man.

Thomas Jefferson was a Deist.

This email was full of bad quotes, misquotes and fake quotes .. one after another.