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While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by…
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Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of…
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Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.
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In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com…
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In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he…
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A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need…
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We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try…
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There is nothing new under the sun.
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter.…
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We often talk too much & listen too little. The surer route to winning a friend isn't to convince them that you're…
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One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to…
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The government invented the Internet.
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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
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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
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The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all…
— Dick Morris
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The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs…
— Benjamin Tucker
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter.…
— Jon Meacham
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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
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Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life…
— Alistair Cooke
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Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
— Benjamin Tucker
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My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.
— Jacob K. Javits
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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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