Jun. 18, 2015, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper

Many of the quotes attributed to the Founding Fathers in two of Rand Paul’s books are either fake, misquoted, or taken entirely out of context, BuzzFeed News has found.
Paul’s first two books — Government Bullies, which was an e-book best-seller, and The Tea Party Goes to Washington — lay out the conservative manifesto he hoped to bring to Washington following the tea party wave in 2010.

A heavy theme in Paul’s books is that the tea party movement is the intellectual heir to the Founding Fathers, with Paul often arguing he knows what position our country’s earliest leaders would have had on certain issues.

The final line in Paul’s book The Tea Party Goes to Washington is a fake sentiment attributed to Jefferson:
The Constitution is very clear about it. The Tea Party’s job is to keep making things clearer, and this is only the beginning. It is not a job that will be finished overnight or even in an election cycle. Thomas Jefferson believed that the price of liberty was eternal vigilance — and now the Tea Party must prove it.

“We currently have no evidence to confirm that Thomas Jefferson ever said or wrote” this phrase, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation has said of “the price of liberty was eternal vigilance,” which Paul uses twice in his book.

Earlier, Paul used another fake Jefferson quote:
In their wisdom, the Founding Fathers— whose Constitution was supposed to restrain our rulers— would have likely made the same prediction. Jefferson wrote, “My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”

This has certainly been true of too much government intervention, as well as attempts to administer too many government benefits.
“This exact quotation has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson,” writes the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
Writing on the Patriot Act, Paul again cites a fake Jefferson quote.
“This sort of invasiveness is also precisely the reason we have a Second Amendment protecting our right to keep and bear arms, or as Jefferson wrote ‘The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.’”
As noted by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, “this quotation has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson.”
Later, writing on Obamacare, Paul cites a different fake Jefferson quote.

When Thomas Jefferson wrote that a “government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have,” he could have easily been referencing Obamacare.
“Neither this quotation nor any of its variant forms has been found in the writings of Thomas Jefferson,” writes the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. The foundation notes that it has been attributed to Gerald Ford, though an assistant to Ford said he heard it from someone else.
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