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 ...
Presidents’ Day is coming up on Feb.17, making it the perfect moment to reflect on the wisdom and inspiration of presidential ...
Thomas Jefferson must have been thinking of Shakespeare when he sent a letter to W.S. Smith on Nov. 13, 1787: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots ...
The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of ...
Rand Paul tends to be in a league of his own. The Kentucky Republican has, after all, been caught pushing fake quotes from Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln and ...
Historians do know the quote — because it has been falsely attributed to Jefferson for years. There is no proof Jefferson ever said it, according to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which has a ...