Increasingly I’m coming to believe that I’m totally wasting my time in assiduously searching all sorts of websites, databases and books to figure out whether or not Thomas Jefferson is the source of a given quote. Really (I tell myself), if it quacks like a duck, it’s most likely a duck. Or, in my case, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘quotations’
That’ll teach me
Posted in Reference Questions, TJ Encyclopedia Entries, tagged quotations on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The interests of a nation…wait, scratch that.
Posted in Jefferson in the News, Reference Questions, tagged quotations on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of our alert former fellows brought Hillary Clinton’s quotation of Jefferson during her recent Secretary of State confirmation hearings to my attention. Of course I can’t help myself from checking to make sure that famous people quoting TJ have actually gotten their quotes correct, because a) I’m a stickler, and b) someone else will [...]
Mistaken Identity
Posted in Reference Questions, TJ Encyclopedia Entries, tagged elections, quotations, race on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A patron asked us about a very unusual quotation the other day: apparently someone, sometime said that Thomas Jefferson was “…a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father…”; this was supposedly a comment made by Jefferson’s political opponents in the election of 1800. But who actually [...]
