Posts circulated on social media attribute a quote onliberals and conservativesto the 26thPresident of the United States,Theodore Roosevelt. The quote, however, is falsely attributed to him. <\/p>\n
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The posts show a photograph of Roosevelt alongside text which reads:To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.The posts do not point to a sourceforthe quotation, nor a possible date. <\/p>\n
Examples of the claim are visible here , here and here . <\/p>\n
On social media, users have responded with conflicting reactions. Some haveconcurred with the sentiment(one posted:Goshthats dead on),while others have disputed theauthenticity of the quotation. <\/p>\n
Reuters found no mention of this quote among those compiled by the Theodore Roosevelt Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated toperpetuatinghismemoryandideals( here ). <\/p>\n
The quote did not appear among the list of notable quotations listed by the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University, another organization working to preserveRoosevelts legacy ( here ). <\/p>\n
In the past, the quotation has been attributed to other statesmen like Winston Churchill, ( here , here ).On other social media sites, the quotation has circulatedwith attribution to Roosevelt, as anonymous, or attributed to an unknown source since 2009( here ). <\/p>\n
In 2013, BarryPopik, a contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, the Yale Book of Quotations and the Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, found that the quote had been in print since about 2007 ( here ), as first reported byPolitifact( here ). Well after Roosevelts lifetime,Popiknotedin a blog entry. <\/p>\n
Throughout the years,other fact-checkers have debunked this claim, ( here , here ). <\/p>\n
False. The quote on liberals and conservatives attributed to Theodore Roosevelt is false. <\/p>\n
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