“...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
“Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Had I realized while on Earth," he said, "that Hell was such a delightful place, I should have put more faith in… — Frederic Arnold Kummer Copy Share Image
“We make no saint of Thomas Jefferson—we leave the mindless business of canonization and the worship of humans to the fanatics—but aware… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“In a representative democracy, the media is in a unique position to shine a light on those with power and how they… — Richard Haas Copy Share Image
“Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Most Americans are unaware that Thomas Jefferson was the first American president to go to war against radical Islam. Jefferson was very… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
I'm enough of an independent loner, that staying in a group's good graces is not always my first priority. I'm not a… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!” — Thomas Jefferson 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
“If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for… — Alexander Hamilton 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
“The evolution of national unity and equal rights is all about what America represents as a nation today: a manifestation of the… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
“If we are undone, we are the most splendidly ruined of any nation in the universe.” — Charles Thomson 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
Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded on the primacy of individual liberty… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
“From this we conclude, that, to live in harmony and peace…we must trace a line of distinction between those (assertions) that are… — Constantin François De Volney Copy Share Image
“To achieve these Jeffersonian ends, Alexander Hamilton—Jefferson’s philosophical rival—devised an ingenious strategy that entailed a strong manufacturing base, a national banking system,… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
