Civil war Quote by Bandy X. Lee

'The people are the only sure reliance, for the preservation of our LIBERTY!' Thomas Jefferson

— Andrew Guzaldo

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the…

— George Washington

Lincoln is distinguished from every other president, with the exception of Jefferson, in that we can be certain that he wrote every word to…

— Fred Kaplan

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

— Anonymous

“Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated.”

— Carl Sagan

[Tomas] Jefferson believed that the United States was a chosen nation with a special responsibility to spread democracy around the world.

— Gordon S. Wood

Jeffersonian democracy, faulty as it is, and only the fragment of it that we have, is a thing of such preciousness, a thing of…

— W. S. Merwin

“But this does not detract from the wisdom of his faith in the people and his constant insistence that they be left to manage…

— Calvin Coolidge

Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found…

— Robert Dallek

“When we seek to understand liberty, equality, progress, constitutional governance, separation of church and state, and the meaning of the American Revolution, we do…

— R.B. Bernstein

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

— Hunter S. Thompson

The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the…

— Clarence Manion