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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAllen West completely blows it.
Former Rep. Allen Wests Book Filled With Fake Founding Father Quotes
A review of a new book by former Congressman Allen West reveals that quotes he attributes to our founding fathers were never uttered.
According to the Palm Beach Post, Wests Guardian of the Republic, which outlines his political philosophy and his warrior code, includes many quotes that have been described by historians as erroneous.
Thomas Jefferson said it first: A government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it away, West wrote.
According to researchers at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia, while that quote has appeared on coffee cups and t-shirts, it doesnt appear in any of Jeffersons writings. So many fake quotations have been attributed to the drafter of the Declaration of Independence, that the foundation felt compelled to create a Spurious Quotations list
A quote attributed to Patrick Henry in Wests book didnt come from the Virginians writings or speeches, says Henry biographer Thomas Kidd, a professor of history at Baylor University.
West quotes Henry as saying: The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
Kidd described the quote as a new one that has gained popularity via the Internet.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/former-rep-allen-west-s-book-filled-fake
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Allen West completely blows it. (Original Post)
Archae
Apr 2014
OP
I think it's safe to assume nobody will be quoting Allen West 200 years from now
Major Nikon
Apr 2014
#3
louis-t
(23,273 posts)1. Amazing. Repugs claim Obama telling kids to stay in school
is "indoctrinating" but feeding them fake quotes and telling stories about how the world sucked until Reagan came along and saved us is not?
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)2. Better headline: "Allen West completely blows". nt
Aerows
(39,961 posts)4. Great minds think alike
that was the first thing I thought when I saw the headline
Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)3. I think it's safe to assume nobody will be quoting Allen West 200 years from now