“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“...the founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected { George… — Bird Wilson Copy Share Image
“No part of the regular school day was set aside for religious worship…. Jefferson did not permit the room belonging to the… — Leonard W. Levy Copy Share Image
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“I am bold to Say that neither you nor I, will live to See the Course which 'the Wonders of the Times'… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We put on shows at Golden Gate Park with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and the groups were part of the community… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion? { Letter to Thomas Jefferson , May 19, 1821 }” — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by directly contradicting the moral basis of slavery,… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“As the nation divided into Federalists and Republicans, each group called the other the worst name possible: "party". Most Americans feared the… — R.B. Bernstein Copy Share Image
There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
“Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
“The religious issue was dragged out, and stirred up flames of hatred and intolerance. Clergymen, mobilizing their heaviest artillery of thunder and… — Saul K. Padover Copy Share Image
“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. { Franklin's edit to the assertion in Thomas Jefferson 's original wording, 'We hold these… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“ Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen.… — Thomas Edison Copy Share Image
“ The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists . Deism was… — Farrell Till Copy Share Image
In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people? What was… — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Copy Share Image
