Government big enough to supply you...(Quotation)
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| - | No evidence has ever been found that Jefferson wrote the following: | + | No evidence has ever been found that Jefferson wrote: |
| - | + | ''' "A government big enough to supply you with everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have...."''' | |
| - | "A government big enough to supply you with everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have...." | + | |
| == Further Sources == | == Further Sources == | ||
| + | *Coates, Eyler Robert, Sr. ''The Thomas Jefferson FAQ.'' http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7842/archives/quote031.htm ''A discussion of this particular spurious quotation.'' | ||
| * Coates, Eyler Robert, Sr. ''Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government: Quotations from the Writings of Thomas Jefferson''. [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/ http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/]. | * Coates, Eyler Robert, Sr. ''Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government: Quotations from the Writings of Thomas Jefferson''. [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/ http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/]. | ||
| * [[Short Title List|''Jeffersonian Cyclopedia'']]. | * [[Short Title List|''Jeffersonian Cyclopedia'']]. | ||
Revision as of 15:44, 12 March 2008
No evidence has ever been found that Jefferson wrote: "A government big enough to supply you with everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have...."
Further Sources
- Coates, Eyler Robert, Sr. The Thomas Jefferson FAQ. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7842/archives/quote031.htm A discussion of this particular spurious quotation.
- Coates, Eyler Robert, Sr. Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government: Quotations from the Writings of Thomas Jefferson. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/.
- Jeffersonian Cyclopedia.
- PTJ.

