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that you guys keep posting such stuff (and accepting it) without at least making a decent attempt to check it ..

Those who hammer their guns into plows...(Quotation)

Quotation: "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."

Variations: 1. "Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."

Sources consulted: Searching on the phrase "hammer their guns"

Monticello website
Ford's Works of Thomas Jefferson
UVA EText Jefferson Digital Archive: Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government, Texts by or to Thomas Jefferson from the Modern English Collection
Thomas Jefferson Retirement Papers
Quotable Jefferson, ed. Kaminski (searching under "guns")

Earliest known appearance in print: No appearances in print found. [1]

Earliest known appearance in print, attributed to Thomas Jefferson: See above.

Other attributions: None known.

Status: We have not found any evidence that Thomas Jefferson said or wrote, "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."

Footnotes

? To establish the earliest appearance of this phrase in print, the following sources were searched for the phrase, "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.": Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, JSTOR.

See Also

Firearms

http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/those-who-hammer-their-guns-plowsquotation

.. links inside .. if you have a link which validates your quote it would be great to see it ..