copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, "Children should be raised by the state." (Viral Article, 2020-05-27)
Evidence (2022-01-28): Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 29, won her U.S. House race in New York. But on her road to becoming a heroine of progressives and media darling, she had to dip into her savings, leaving her with less than $7,000 stashed away. Her 2017 income: less than $27,000. [...] But many find that troubling. If candidates by and large need to be wealthy to run, is that good for democracy?
Claim: Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, "Children should be raised by the state." (Viral Article, 2020-05-27)
Evidence (2024-06-12): "I have been proud to partner with the New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who introduced this legislation in the House of Representatives with four Republican and four Democratic cosponsors. As you can see in both the Senate in the House, this is a bipartisan measure … Sadly, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez herself is a victim of explicit deepfakes. I commend her for working to create tools for victims in the fight against this despicable conduct."
Claim: Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, "Children should be raised by the state." (Viral Article, 2020-05-27)
Evidence (2020-04-17): Other plans take aim at the richest Americans' income, rather than their wealth (which factors in all of a person's assets and debt). Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, in January said the government should tax incomes exceeding $10 million at a rate of 70 percent, a policy she said would help fund a "Green New Deal" in the fight against climate change. [...] WASHINGTON — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the liberal Democratic upstart from New York, is bringing a sexual assault survivor who cornered a Republican senator in an elevator, demanding to know if he was going to vote to confirm Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. [...] Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said they will vote against the rules package because of the budgetary provision.
Claim: Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, "Children should be raised by the state." (Viral Article, 2020-05-27)
Evidence (2024-04-24): If elected, she’d follow in the footsteps of her sister Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat who represents Washington’s 7th Congressional District in Seattle and chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. [...] She said she would advocate investments in environmentally sustainable public housing like those proposed in the Green New Deal. The bill, introduced by Independent U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, would invest more than $200 billion over the next decade to make public housing in the U.S. energy efficient.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2019-05-29): There is no record of Jefferson ever saying or writing this phrase. It is included in the Thomas Jefferson Foundation’s list of spurious quotations.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2019-05-30): FACT CHECK: Did Thomas Jefferson Say, ‘Most Bad Government Has Grown Out Of Too Much Government’? [...] "Most bad government has grown out of too much government," reads the alleged quote. [...] A slightly longer version of the quote says, "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government." It appears to have originated in a series of lectures delivered by politician John Sharp Williams. The speeches were published in 1913 in the form of a book titled "Thomas Jefferson: His Permanent Influence on American Institutions." The book contains the phrase in question, but the lectures were written about Jefferson, not by him.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2019-09-27): A post shared on Facebook claims that founding father Thomas Jefferson once stated, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which runs his Monticello estate, includes the saying on its list of spurious quotations. John Philpot Curran, an Irish politician, may actually have originated the saying. Jefferson made many highly quotable statements, but the saying attributed to him the Facebook post doesn’t appear to be one of them. It appears nowhere in his written works. (RELATED: Did Thomas Jefferson Say, ‘Most Bad Government Has Grown Out Of Too Much Government’?)
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2024-01-22): Thomas Jefferson: 'My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.' My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson once famously said, "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." This insightful quote encapsulates Jefferson's belief that excessive government intervention can lead to negative consequences. Essentially, he argues that an overreliance on the state can stifle individual freedoms and hinder progress. Jefferson's perspective has remained relevant throughout history, sparking debates on the proper balance between government intervention and personal liberties.The significance of Jefferson's quote lies in its cautionary message against an unchecked expansion of governmental power. It serves as a reminder that while government is essential for the functioning of society, an excessive concentration of authority can have detrimental effects. History has repeatedly demonstrated how authoritarian regimes and oppressive governments have emerged when a ruling class seeks to exert excessive control over its citizens. Such regimes often restrict individual freedoms, suppress dissent, and impede progress and innovation.However, to delve deeper into this topic and bring an unexpected philosophical concept into the discussion, let us explore the idea of minimalism. In recent years, the concept of minimalism has gained momentum, advocating for a simpler, more intentional way of living.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Bad government results from too much government ... A quotation commonly misattributed to Thomas Jefferson. [...] My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2014-08-28): Comments: Although the ideas expressed in this quotation may be in line with Jefferson's opinions to some extent, the exact phrasing is almost certainly not Jefferson's. However, this quotation has been associated with the ideological descendants of Jefferson's Democratic-Republican party for a very long time (see above), and this is likely why it ultimately came to be attributed to him. Merrill Peterson even referred to the quotation as a "Jeffersonian maxim" in The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (1960).[4]
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2013-09-17): While we're on the subject of writings that are frequently decontextualized in order to suit partisan opportunistic gains, many of the "quotes" frequently attributed to Thomas Jefferson — a guy who had a hand in the Constitution — are total nonsense. [...] 1. "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." [...] Yeah, no, Jefferson probably never said this. It was a tertiary anecdote from the Reverend Ethan Allen, essentially the email forwards of the 19th century. Its authenticity is highly questionable.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2005-01-01): Comments: Neither this quotation nor any of its variant forms has been found in the writings of Thomas Jefferson. Its first known appearance in print was in 1952, although it is most likely older. It appeared frequently in newspapers in the 1950s (usually unattributed), and was even used in political cartoons. It was copyrighted in 1957 by the General Features Corporation, as part of a syndicated newspaper feature called "Today's Chuckle." It later became a popular saying among Republican politicians. Governor Harold W. Handley of Indiana used it in his annual message to the Indiana General Assembly in 1961;[3] Barry Goldwater was quoted using it in his 1964 run for president;[4] and Gerald Ford is on record using it in an address to a joint session of Congress on August 12, 1974.[5] It was attributed to Ford as early as 1954, however,[6] and Ford's assistant, Robert Hartmann, said that Ford claimed to have heard the quotation "early in his political career" from Harvard McClain at the Economic Club of Chicago.[7] This quotation was not attributed to Jefferson until relatively recently. It is sometimes followed by, "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases," which is most likely a misquotation of Jefferson's comment, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, and government to gain ground."[8]
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2008-01-01): Since 2008, a list of ten purported Jefferson quotations has been passed around via email and posted in many places on the Internet. This list contains some genuine Jefferson quotations, some misquoted Jefferson quotations, some completely spurious quotations, and some that are mixture of genuine and spurious. The quotations are listed below with comments regarding their authenticity. [...] - "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." This is actually a quotation by someone else, talking about Jefferson. See this quotation's article for more details.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2019-10-25): FACT CHECK: Did Thomas Jefferson Say, ‘When The People Fear The Government, There Is Tyranny’? An image shared on Facebook claims that founding father Thomas Jefferson said, "When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." [...] Social media users frequently ascribe sayings to Jefferson, a founding father and later the third president. (RELATED: Did Thomas Jefferson Say That Big Government Could ‘Take Everything You Have’?)
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2013-11-15): There seems to be a cottage industry in misquoting Thomas Jefferson. He didn’t say, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." Nor, "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government," nor any variations of those or dozens of other pithy phrases wrongly attributed to our illustrious third president. [...] Cain said that Thomas Jefferson said, "You might be able to fool the people for a while, and they may go astray, but sooner or later the American people are going to wake up and they will correct the course." Jefferson did write a line that resembles that in some important ways, but Cain put a fair number of words into Jefferson’s mouth. At PunditFact, we believe quotations should be relatively word-for-word accurate. If someone went to the trouble to leave their thoughts for posterity, the least we should do is honor what they actually said. [...] Wall Street Journal, To Quote Thomas Jefferson, 'I Never Actually Said That', Dec. 6, 2012
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2020-12-17): The claim: Thomas Jefferson said 'the greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution' Social media users are sharing a purported quote by Founding Father and former President Thomas Jefferson, who is frequently misattributed by politicians and social media users. [...] The claim that Jefferson said "the greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution" is FALSE. A Jefferson Library researcher includes this quote in a list of spurious quotes and it is not included in any of his writings. There is no evidence to support the claim that Jefferson ever said this.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2022-11-28): A quote about the U.S. Constitution's role in limiting the power of government has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson since at least the early 2000s: [...] Among others, the American Enterprise Institute previously asserted that Jefferson authored the statement prior to issuing a correction. A memed version of the statement is often shared on social media. According to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, though, no records exist to support the claim that Jefferson authored this statement. The phrase appears, instead, to conflate at least two sources. [...] For these reasons, the claim that Jefferson made a statement about both criminals and government being "enemies of the people" is False.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2019-04-11): FACT CHECK: Did Thomas Jefferson Say That Big Government Could ‘Take Everything You Have’? The Facebook page Cold Dead Hands shared an image claiming that founding father Thomas Jefferson said, "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." [...] The quote has been so often misattributed to Jefferson that the Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia, curated by his estate at Monticello, has an entry dedicated to this "spurious quotation."
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2019-06-04): No, Thomas Jefferson did not say big government is ‘strong enough to take everything you have’ [...] A Facebook post claims Thomas Jefferson once said or wrote that "a government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." But the quote could not be found in any of Jefferson’s writings and appears to have originated sometime around the 1950s. It has been attributed to Ford, among others, throughout the years as it became a popular saying for politicians starting in the 20th Century.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2024-08-25): It had garnered 8,168 views as of this writing, as well as 472 likes. The quote appeared on other social media platforms, including Reddit and Facebook. At least one defendant of the the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Attack attributed these words to Jefferson during his trial in an attempt to justify his participation in the riot. [...] But as we'll see, there is no evidence Jefferson ever said this. We have therefore given it a "Misattributed" rating. [...] In this section, one of the quotes it examines is this one and its variation. Researchers associated with the foundation said they were not able to find any of these versions in any of the repositories of Jefferson's writings. Instead, researching various other sources on the internet, including Google Books, Google Scholar, JSTOR and other archival sites, they were able to determine that the quote first appeared in the 1914 publication of the 1912 Barnhill-Tichenor Debate on Socialism, in which Henry M. Tichenor, a socialist thinker, and John Basil Barnhill, an anti-socialist writer, debated socialism in a series of essays. In "Indictment of Socialism No. 3," Barnhill listed a series of points. The first one is the quote, and it is not attributed to Jefferson:
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2014-01-24): "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves," reads the quote attributed to Jefferson, over the image of a waving American flag. [...] To quote Anna Berkes, the research librarian at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello in Virginia, "That sounds like something that he might have said or written, but in fact, he did not." [...] The fake posted by Hice is a common mistake that was first incorrectly attributed to Jefferson in 1853. Historians long attributed the quote to Henry David Thoreau, who used a variation of it in his 1849 essay, "Civil Disobedience," to argue that individuals should not let governments to make them agents of injustice.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2019-07-15): A specific quote about the dangers of an oversized government has been widely attributed to Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd president of the United States. It wasn’t him. In fact, a great many quotes attributed to Jefferson -- including the one about a "government big enough" -- have nothing to do with him at all! [...] "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." [...] In 1857, the Reverend Ethan Allen (not this Ethan Allen) claimed in an anecdote to have heard Jefferson say this. No other evidence exists for its validity, and Jefferson’s complex relationship with religion - he famously rewrote the New Testament to remove the miracles - makes it highly questionable.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2020-07-08): Another example of ‘too much government’ [...] Thomas Jefferson said: "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."Jefferson provided this vision for the proper role of government: "A wise and frugal Government shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." Treacherously, lawmakers and bureaucrats in Washington and Oklahoma have strayed from Jefferson’s fundamental approach to government. We have too much government, too much regulation, and too many taxes.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2015-01-01): Peterson discovered that Jefferson had become America's Everyman, the cult hero for wildly divergent and often antagonistic political movements throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The term Peterson used was "Protean Jefferson," which gave a respectably classical sound to what others might regard as Jefferson's disarming ideological promiscuity. Southern secessionists loved him; Northern abolitionists worshiped him; Gilded Age moguls echoed his warnings about federal power; Populists adored his advice about the evils of a banking conspiracy and the superiority of agrarian values. In the 1925 Scopes trial, both William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow were sure that Jefferson agreed with their positions on evolution. Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt both claimed him as their guide to the problems of the Great Depression. In the 1930s isolationists and interventionists cited him as their spiritual mentor. [...] And this, of course, is where he resides today, a kind of free-floating icon who hovers over the American political scene much like one of those dirigibles cruising above the Super Bowl, flashing words of encouragement to both teams. Formerly the property of liberal crusaders, he is now claimed by Democrats and Republicans alike. In fact, the most effective articulator of Jeffersonian rhetoric in the last half of the 20th century has been Ronald Reagan, the most conservative president since Calvin Coolidge, whose belief in less government, individual freedoms and American destiny came straight out of the Jeffersonian lexicon. Jefferson is not just an essential ingredient in the American political tradition, but the essence itself.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2020-03-08): Subject:English Grammar "Most bad government has grown out of too much government."—Thomas Jefferson [...] Interpretation of Thomas Jefferson's Quote Thomas Jefferson's quote, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government.", suggests that when a government becomes
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2023-01-01): To do that, we have to understand what causes them. Well, for starters, our Federal Government has been living beyond its means for more than a generation. One of the wisest of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, warned that the public debt is ``the greatest of dangers to be feared.'' He believed that is was wrong for one generation to forever burden the generations yet to come, and for the first 150 years of our history, our leaders heeded Jefferson's warning.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." (Turning Point USA, 2019-05-29)
Evidence (2019-08-28): But then I had to tell them, these Democrats, about Jefferson’s ideas of minimal government, that he fervently believed that the best government was the one that governed least, that he disliked all Federal taxes, that he had no programs for the cities, that he, in fact, hated all cities and wanted America not to develop any. I also had to tell them that he hated the Supreme Court and was more of a strict constructionist than Robert Bork, that he feared all governmental power and often suggested that government was only a device by which the few attempt to rob, cheat, and oppress the many. [...] Jefferson’s assumption that people were naturally sociable and possessed an innate moral sense had important implications. It lay behind his belief in minimal government. He thought if the government would just get out of the way, people’s inherent sociability and moral instinct would create a natural ordering of the society, an ordering that would be free of the confusion and contentions of the past. Many revolutionaries, like Jefferson, believed that government, although perhaps necessary to restrict what wickedness that did exist, was, nevertheless, the source of most of the social evils in the world, including poverty and all invidious privileges and distinctions. With governmental power reduced to a minimum and vigilantly watched, revolutionaries like Jefferson hoped that the new Republican equality would lead to social harmony. They believed that the contentiousness of colonial politics under the British monarchy, for example, had come from the fact that undeserving people had been in leadership.
Claim: purports Elon Musk published a 'Rest In Peace (RIP)' tweet for late financier Jeffrey Epstein (Post, 2023-05-17)
Evidence (2023-05-17): An advanced Twitter search does not generate the purported tweet from Musk. There is no evidence he made the purported remark.