Board of education Quote by David Barton

It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what is constitutional…

— Walter E. Williams

Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted as suited…

— Edwin Gaustad

It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's…

— William Rehnquist

I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of…

— Potter Stewart

It almost seems I was writing two separate books, the first one about the time before I went on the court and the second…

— John Paul Stevens

We are not living up to Thomas Jefferson's idea of what a trial by jury means.

— Glenne Headly

“No imputation on his purpose but cleared away like the cloud from a breath on spotless steel, leaving the metal bright as before. He…

— C.A. (Cyrus Augustus) Bartol

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public…

— Matt Blunt

“Jefferson is now remembered as the author of one of the English language’s most timeless passages, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that…

— Charles River Editors

“Thomas Jefferson still survives”

— John Adams

“The Jefferson style – cultivate his elders, make himself pleasant to his contemporaries, and used his pen and his intellect to shape the debate…

— Jon Meacham

“Thomas Jefferson. . . knew what schools were for--to ensure that citizens would know when and how to protect their liberty. . . It…

— Neil Postman