Admired Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.

— Robert Dallek

Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated…

— Alistair Cooke

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

— Gore Vidal

The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government…

— Jerry Brown

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

“Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.”

— Patrick Mendis

Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the…

— Bill Moyers

Basically [Louise] Brandeis was a Jeffersonian. And you say the timing is great, and it is in a lot of senses, except not for…

— Jeffrey Rosen

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

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

— Anonymous

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I…

— George Woodcock