I am,” Jefferson wrote to a correspondent who wanted to…

I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps.…

— Ray Stevenson

“Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge…

— David McCullough

Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against…

— William J. Clinton

“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

“History has shown time and time again that there is no such thing as all things being equal. That is why Jefferson wrote that…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been…

— Paul Jacob

“And so Jefferson wrote the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which organized the new territories of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin so that slavery…

— Allen C. Guelzo

“Such is the economy of nature," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "that no instance can be produced, of her having permitted any one race of her…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“In January 1821, Thomas Jefferson wrote John Adams to “encourage a hope that the human mind will some day get back to the freedom…

— Christopher Hitchens

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history,…

— Marvin Ammori

“Jefferson then distilled and enunciated these “essentials” in several personal works he shared with friends, his “Syllabus,” and two extracts from the Bible: “The…

— Steven K. Green

The separation of church and state is a misnomer. People misunderstand it. Of course, it comes from a phrase that was in a letter…

— Mike Johnson

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

— Bill Cosby

For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system in which…

— Catherine Wilson

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My…

— Jo Walton