08
Jan
2021
The quote 'when the government fears the people, there is freedom' is not from Thomas Jefferson but from a 1914 debate by John Basil Barnhill.
We've been over this before, but that isn't a Thomas Jefferson quote. It's from a 1914 debate against socialism delivered by John Basil Barnhill that over the years has been misattributed to a bunch of people like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson.