The Jefferson Lies Quotes

“It’s interesting that many of the best instructors in early America were Scottish Presbyterians. As historian George Marsden affirmed, “[I]t is not much of an exaggeration to say that outside of New England, the Scots were the educators of eighteenth-century America.”7 These Scottish instructors regularly tutored students in what was known as the Scottish Common Sense educational philosophy –”
― David Barton, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson

“Because our current educational system now graduates students lacking even minimal historical knowledge, citizens are misled by outlandish charges Modernists make about not only Jefferson but also other Founders as well as traditionally venerated historical events. If rudimentary historical literacy is to be achieved today, it must be individually secured, for it is no longer possible to rely on public schools (and even many private schools) for this once elementary knowledge”
― David Barton, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson

“An American is a man who is greater in his soul than in his class, creed, political party, or the section in which he lives. To be an American, a man must have an American soul and believe in the spiritual realities upon which America rests and out of which America was born. America was created to unite mankind by those passions which lift and not by the passions which separate and debase. We came to America … to get rid of the things that divide and make sure of the things that unite…. [T]he man who seeks to divide men from men, group from group, interest from interest in this great Union is striking at its very heart.”
― David Barton, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson

“I have never seen a contemporary history book that informs students that witch trials were also occurring across the world at that time with 500,000 put to death in Europe,45 including 30,000 in England, 75,000 in France, and 100,000 in Germany.46 Why do modern texts point out the twenty-seven deaths in America but ignore the 500,000 elsewhere? Historical Negativism.”
― David Barton, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson

“[A] little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.”32 Bacon”
― David Barton, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson

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― David Barton, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson