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Misquoting Thomas Jefferson seems to be a popular right-wing pastime.

Here are some things Jefferson did not say but which are widely attributed to him:

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

I can't find a definitive statement that he did not say this, but it's not in any of the reliable collections and nobody cites a source for it.

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 A [[democracy]] is nothing more than [[mob rule]], where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
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-* '''2007-08-15''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081401703_pf.html Rove's 'Mob' Remark: An Age-Old Social Slur]: "The esteemed founder never said it. The folks at Monticello's research library witheringly say that old saw has been dogging him for years."
+* '''2007-08-15''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081401703_pf.html Rove's 'Mob' Remark: An Age-Old Social Slur]:
 '''Attributions''':
 * [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/chu6.html Bevin Chu, on LewRockwell.com]
 * [http://thinkexist.com/quotation/a_democracy_is_nothing_more_than_mob_rule-where/225983.html Thinkexist.com] (index of quotations)
 * '''2008-12-31''' [http://meltdown2011.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/were-a-republic-not-a-democracy/ Meltdown 2011: We're a Republic, NOT a Democracy]
 ===Social Welfare Will Kill Democracy===
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