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• The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as… — Alistair Cooke
• Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses. — Charles A. Beard
• The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all… — Dick Morris
• The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs… — Benjamin Tucker
• It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter.… — Jon Meacham
• The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life… — Alistair Cooke
• Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. — Benjamin Tucker
• My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian. — Jacob K. Javits
• Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent,… — Thomas Woods

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