The fact that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves doesn't devalue what he wrote. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“The Jefferson is such a dignified hotel / There is no such thing.” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
“Screw you, you sons of bitches. I may be just a goddamn Jew Red to you, but I'm keeping Jefferson alive!” — I.F. Stone Copy Share Image
[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin. — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“Did Jefferson really believe Black people were smart in slavery and stupid in freedom?13 Notes” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Jefferson could write, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.” — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“..myself standing in front of Monticello wearing a veil and a wedding gown, hand in hand with a very muscular President Jefferson.” — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
“It was Jefferson’s genius that kept the American Revolution from being sucked into the tunnel faster than it was. Jefferson had red… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hated each other so much. But that hate that they had for each other did not come… — David Scott Copy Share Image
What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food… — Barton Seaver Copy Share Image
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, "How can one have… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Now, tell me how you're going to teach the history of Jefferson, and cut out all those quotes and cut out all… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“Jefferson is now remembered as the author of one of the English language’s most timeless passages, “We hold these truths to be… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“Jefferson also founded the first intentionally secularized university in America. His vision for the University of Virginia was for education finally free… — Daryl C. Cornett Copy Share Image
Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson is by far the smartest president,” said Thomas Jefferson, about Thomas Jefferson, and to Thomas Jefferson. Even though he was… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Our country was built, to a large extent, on protecting our manufacturers. If you go back to Jefferson, you go back to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“In three years of backbreaking studies that, according to Madison , "exacted perhaps the most severe of Jefferson's public labors," Jefferson had… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share Image
“Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal… — R.B. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Jefferson’s decision to acquire Louisiana without seeking a constitutional amendment expanded the powers of the executive in ways that would likely have… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of… — Jon Mecham Copy Share Image
“His first term is a model in executive restraint; it turned around an American political system that had deviated widely from the… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that Mr. Jefferson ever hated me. On the contrary, I believe he always like me: but he detested… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will be a troublesome one,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Jefferson's ambivalence toward the French Revolution matters. As a key founder of the American republic, he bridges the moderate and radical Enlightenments.… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“When we seek to understand liberty, equality, progress, constitutional governance, separation of church and state, and the meaning of the American Revolution,… — R.B. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.” — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. Thomas Jefferson” — Tim Grove Copy Share Image
By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence." — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
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