On FR, I've seen it said that everything Wal-Mart purchases is made in China. I've also heard it said that imminently, our financial system is going to collapse and that Americans will be killing each other trying to get what little food remains in our grocery stores. And, now on this very thread, I've heard that the US owes China $8 trillion.
I most certainly wouldn't consider FR an infallible source of information especially when it comes from protectionists who have a long history of taking license with the facts to promote their own agenda.
..are you sure that Jefferson did not use similar but somehow different phrases in different statements or letters? The same people tend to repeat themselves with some variations.
That Jefferson quote was made to James Madison in a letter sent in 1815. If you'd like to see the letter, in its entirety, I'd be happy to link you to it. If you can find another correspondence where he said, verbatim, what's in your new tagline, I'd like to see it because it would contradict everything he believed in his entire life.
You might be right. I am replacing my tagline.