Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a…

“The document that heralded our national revolution, the Declaration of Independence, was penned by Thomas Jefferson. Within that text, he did not cover any…

— Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

— Walter Legge

Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.

— Richard Brookhiser

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hated each other so much. But that hate that they had for each other did not come before the…

— David Scott

Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And…

— Adam Davidson

“Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out…

— R.B. Bernstein

It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die.…

— James Truslow Adams

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation…

— George Will

“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they…

— Wynton Marsalis

These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be…

— Brian Stelter

Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they spread their…

— Heather Cox Richardson

This has all the appearance of a foreign power trying to undermine structures of legitimacy of an American election. That is a serious matter.…

— Michael Gerson

This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have…

— Charles R. Chamberlain

Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had…

— Michael Eric Dyson