evidence: 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." [...] Furthermore, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which maintains his estate at Monticello, categorizes it as a spurious quotation. The source of the expression may actually be a series of debates on socialism published in 1914, according to the Monticello website. (The wording varies slightly in this instance.) [...] The misattributed quote has been linked to Jefferson since at least 1994, according to etymologist Barry Popik.