What's the point of making a point to people who immediately respond with something to the effect, "I don't care what he really said, the quote make the point, so it must be valid." These people will only see that which reinforces their own existing opinions. This site posts numerous proven fraudulent "quotes" to advance its Right Wing agenda. If the Right can't make its point with the truth, they make it up. Doesn't that show the poverty of their argument?

He never said it. Henry David Thoreau quoted it as an old saying, but Jefferson in not known to have ever said or written it -- "They Never Said It" by Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George, Oxford University Press, 1989. So you Righties can stop misquoting it.

He never said it. "Nor, for that matter, did it appear in the writings of any other famous American." -- in "They Never Said It" by Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George, Oxford University Press, 1989.