evidence: 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: