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Quote bythe late Thomas Jefferson...

Citizen

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Do you have a citation to the original Jefferson source, say, a letter from him to a contemporary or something?

I ask because I've come across a lot of Jefferson quotes, but not this one. And, if yours is really a Jefferson quote, its a lot shorter than the next nearest version which goes (paraphrase) "I would rather experience the inconveniences that attend liberty than the dangers that attend too little." Or, something along those lines.
 

Firedawg314

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Do you have a citation to the original Jefferson source, say, a letter from him to a contemporary or something?

I ask because I've come across a lot of Jefferson quotes, but not this one. And, if yours is really a Jefferson quote, its a lot shorter than the next nearest version which goes (paraphrase) "I would rather experience the inconveniences that attend liberty than the dangers that attend too little." Or, something along those lines.

I can't remember the website... it was one for quotes that famous people have said. Personnally i think it might have been an interpation of the Latin qoute he mention and that was probabaly a translation. But at least I added the Latin part.
 

peterarthur

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Do you have a citation to the original Jefferson source, say, a letter from him to a contemporary or something?

I ask because I've come across a lot of Jefferson quotes, but not this one. And, if yours is really a Jefferson quote, its a lot shorter than the next nearest version which goes (paraphrase) "I would rather experience the inconveniences that attend liberty than the dangers that attend too little." Or, something along those lines.

Jefferson to James Madison, January 30, 1787

In PTJ, 11:92-3. Letterpress copy available online from the Library of Congress.
 
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