10 Thomas Jefferson Quotes…. That Are Totally Fake

#7. “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.”

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Jefferson never said it. It has been misattributed to him for a long, long time, and is possible a quote by Samuel Gompers, and was used frequently by Gerald Ford. A lot of people think it’s a bastardization of a quote where Jefferson said: “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild [sic], and government to gain ground.”

Still, that quote in itself is good enough. We don’t need fake Jefferson quotes, because the real ones are all so good and accomplish the same task of attacking the same problems.

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