Hannity brings Reverend Wright back into focus...

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Originally Posted by painter

There you go again....

http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/coll/130.html

While many of the Jefferson books were lost in the Library fire of 1851, the remaining volumes have been assembled as a unit in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Many books bear Jefferson's ownership markings as well as the original Library of Congress bookplates and classification. The contents of the entire 1815 purchase were reconstructed by E. Millicent Sowerby and described in a five volume set entitled which is now made available digitally.

I don't get your point. The text you cut and pasted above makes no mention of the quotations you've used or any others. Neither does the page you linked to, where your "paste" comes from. Are you saying that those quotations are in that collection somewhere? If so, why not link to them directly? Since you've used them, you must know where they are, right?

Bobabode and I have both provided links to the quotes you've used. Those links take you to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at UVa, a university which Jefferson founded. I suspect that, somewhere along the way, they've heard that the Library of Congress has some information about Jefferson in its collection. Why, then do they specifically cite the quotations you've used as being spurious? Heck, not only do they say who didn't say them but they say who did.

Just for the hell of it, here are those links again.

http://www.monticello.org/site/jeffe...-wantquotation

http://www.monticello.org/site/jeffe...ment-quotation

There are a lot of bogus Jefferson quotes out there. A LOT! Since Jefferson, more than any other of our founders, is as close to being a "prophet" of American democracy as we have, many people have tried to co-opt his name and his reputation to serve their own ends. To do this they have attributed to him quotes made by others (like yours) or just simply made them up out of whole cloth.

John