[George W. Bush]

Find me an article disproving these quotes that have traditionally been attributed to them. I've looked before and no one ever disproves them and they have long standing attribution to those same persons. So exactly why should we doubt them? The sentiments are entirely consistent with their political temperaments and the times in which they lived.

I suppose you think that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were all falsely quoted in the Bible as well.

[Sam Hill]

God you are tiresome (and clearly pretty slow). There is thing marvelous thing called Google:

Jefferson Library: A Guide to Thomas Jefferson Quotations

In other cases, quotes are often attributed to Jefferson but were actually said by others:

* "Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither." (Benjamin Franklin)

http://www.monticello.org/library/reference/quotes.html

Benjamin Franklin and the other Founders were principled, not stupid or suicidal

"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither" — and misattributing them to Benjamin Franklin.

Mr. Franklin would be aghast to be misquoted and misused.

"Those who would give up ESSENTIAL LIBERTY to purchase a little TEMPORARY SAFETY, deserve neither LIBERTY nor SAFETY" is a motto on the title page of An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania. (1759).

This motto was attributed to Mr. Franklin in the edition of 1812.

In a letter of September 27, 1760 to David Hume, however, Mr. Franklin stated that he published this book and denied that he wrote it, other than a few remarks that were credited to the Pennsylvania Assembly, in which he served.

The phrase itself was first used in a letter from the Pennsylvania Assembly dated November 11, 1755 to the Governor of Pennsylvania.

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaynor/060121