In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The fact that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves doesn't devalue what he wrote. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. --Thomas Jefferson — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening. — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“on the principle of its being a public blessing. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to” — Mark Meckler Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson’s classic formulation: ‘it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It… — John Corvino Copy Share Image
“That government is best which rules least," quoted in Torbet. Leland was a Baptist spokesman and pastor who knew Thomas Jefferson, circa… — Robert G. Torbet Copy Share Image
It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what… — Walter E. Williams 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 would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“The last time I saw love was in my imagination while reading a book on Thomas Jefferson. Isn’t the Constitution of the… — Jarod Kintz 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
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
The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I want to say to you is that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson did not intend to drive a stake in the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — George Washington 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
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
Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he… — Wesley Pruden 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
The United States has already passed on as the world's economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed… — Ilana Mercer 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
Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Now, it’s a pity that your schools no longer teach the same language in which the Declaration and the Constitution were written… — Jack Pelham 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 January 1821, Thomas Jefferson wrote John Adams to “encourage a hope that the human mind will some day get back to… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“Deeply reluctant to judge a Founder as wanting in moral force, modern commentators retreat to a range of adjectives such as ‘flawed,’… — Henry Wiencek 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
“If we are undone, we are the most splendidly ruined of any nation in the universe.” — Charles Thomson Copy Share Image