On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 11:14:26 PM UTC-4, John B. wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 17:00:21 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 3:21:36 PM UTC-4, Ed Huntress wrote:

So " Bogus. Jefferson never said that " is not necessarily true.

No, look closely at what you're looking at. That's the Monticello
group. They have access to virtually every word ever written by
Jefferson and preserved, at UVa, Princeton, Lib. of Congress, and
UMass, and some of the best researchers in the business. They're VERY
cautious about claiming spurious quotes, and they don't do it until
they've turned over every leaf.

The fact that it first appeared in a 2007 quote from a NOVEL titled
_On A Hill They Call Capital: A Revolution is Coming_, published by
"Freestate Press" with NO CITATION should give it away. The fact that
it appears in variants on the Web is more evidence that it's made up.
There are no citations attached to any of the quotes on the Web. Take
a look.
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Ed Huntress

It matters not. The fact that the Monticello group has access to everything known to be written by Jefferson does not change the logic. There still is no proof that Jefferson never said that.

Or, equally, no proof that he did say it. Therefore the statement
"that he did say it" is equally false.

Then I could just as well say that Thomas Jefferson said: "A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."