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• The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and… — John Adams
• After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that… — Russ Carnahan
• People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson… — Sharron Angle
• In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place. — Stephen Ambrose
• Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist. — Stephen Ambrose
• Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends. — Stephen Ambrose
• Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death. — Stephen Ambrose
• Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father… — Thomas Jefferson
• The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector… — Thomas Jefferson
• But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or… — Jamaica Kincaid
• I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment… — Paul Jacob
• Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one… — Abraham Lincoln

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