[Ads-l] apocryphal Jefferson quote (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

But he'd have said it if he'd thought of it.

And it's the thought that counts.

JL

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 3:33 PM MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC
AVMC (USA) <0000099bab68be9a-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

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> See:
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> https://freebeacon.com/politics/dem-rep-celebrates-education-week-by-tweeting-fake-jefferson-quote/
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> My own cursory searches don't see it attributed to Jeffferson earlier than
> 2009 or so.
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> 16 col 4
> Dallas TX _Dallas Morning News_ 1 Oct 1925 p
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> "Marvin Jones, Congressman, declared in his speech that . . . an educated
> citizenry is the safeguard of the Republic."
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> W. S. Barnard, of Univ. of North Carolina, quoted in:
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> Raleigh NC _News and Observer_ 30 Dec 1926, p 2 col 7
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> "An educated citizenry is more necessary to the culture and development of
> the State than anything else under heaven."
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