evidence: "People often want him to have said things that he didn’t," Harrison explains. "For example, there are quite a few Washington quotes about the Second Amendment or about firearms that are made up, or that have parts of the quote removed." [...] Harrison says that Washington’s thoughts on the right to bear arms are few and far between. It’s also hard to guess how he would view our 21st-century interpretations of the Second Amendment since our firearms didn’t exist in his day. [...] Not all fabricated quotes are about firearms, of course. Others relate to religion, Washington’s mother, and his famed inability to tell a lie, which comes from the Parson Mason Weems’ biography of George as a young man. The more these falsehoods circulate, the less we understand Washington as a complete person.