"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson

That blogger needs to do more research instead of just using Google.  You realize most of those were, in fact, said by Thomas Jefferson, but the wording was not exact.

Though the wording may be slightly different, due to repeated requotes, the message is the same. 

Nice try though!

In Christ,
KP

Ah yes, a "conservative" who works hard and wants the government off his back and to stop allowing unborn babies to be killed....if he posts something he must have gotten it from an "email chain letter." Yes, those "tolerant" liberals. They're just political hacks masquerading as open-minded and objective people.

But as was said, the quote has the same message even if you flip the end to the front. But liberals love to muddy the water whenever they can.

The blogger used the Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia which is the central hub of Monticello researchers and scholars and the main place online to find original documents from Jefferson.

Its very common for both conservative and liberal ideologues to alter or fabricate quotations for propaganda purposes. So whenever anyone posts a thread based on a quote the first thing I do is look up the source and 9 times out of 10 its a misquote on some level--sometimes a complete hoax. But this one by tennman is mostly okay--it seems like it was probably altered by someone for aesthetic reasons.

Leave it to the left to swerve off into something like the order of the words and a misquote AND to actually USE that to try and make a point.

They will correct your spelling, your grammer, a myriad of things from down their noses, because........they are smarter eh?

Regardless if you built a time machine and folded space time sufficiently to walk into Jeffersons hearthroom, his quotes do not work for the left. so lets find the inaccuracies of the paraphrases and refocus.

Very pedestrian of you....