As a general aside -- many of the spurious and paraphrased items attributed to Jefferson can be traced back to Alfred J Nock's biography, in which he has a terrible sloppy habit of conflating actual Jefferson quotes with either commentary from other authors or himself but making the whole thing look like a direct quote from Jefferson.
As a general aside -- many of the spurious and paraphrased items attributed to Jefferson can be traced back to Alfred J Nock's biography, in which he has a terrible sloppy habit of conflating actual Jefferson quotes with either commentary from other authors or himself but making the whole thing look like a direct quote from Jefferson.