[Ads-l] apocryphal Jefferson quote (UNCLASSIFIED)

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)]

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See:

https://freebeacon.com/politics/dem-rep-celebrates-education-week-by-tweeting-fake-jefferson-quote/

My own cursory searches don't see it attributed to Jeffferson earlier than 2009 or so.

16 col 4
Dallas TX _Dallas Morning News_ 1 Oct 1925 p 

"Marvin Jones, Congressman, declared in his speech that . . . an educated citizenry is the safeguard of the Republic."




W. S. Barnard, of Univ. of North Carolina, quoted in:

Raleigh NC _News and Observer_ 30 Dec 1926, p 2 col 7

"An educated citizenry is more necessary to the culture and development of the State than anything else under heaven."





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