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What Is the Origin of This Quote From Thomas Jefferson?
The most likely origin of this quote is an Irish poet and lawyer named John Philpott Curran. According to Monticello, this is not a quote that appears in any written or spoken history from Thomas Jefferson. And it's one of the reasons that I kind of bring this up constantly, like whenever they deploy some of these as spurious quotes: They live in a fantasy of their own history.