American Quote by David E. Sanger

After [Tomas] Jefferson's defeat of [John] Adams in the presidential election of 1800, they didn't communicate with one another for more than a decade.

— Gordon S. Wood

“You're from Great Britain, so you have a bit of a different communication style. I grew up in a small town on the border…

— Anthony Scaramucci

When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas Jefferson, who…

— Nat Hentoff

“Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret…

— Dale Carnegie

“You're from Great Britain, so you have a bit of a different communication style. I grew up in a small town on the border…

— Anthony Scaramucci

To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say,…

— Eric Holder

“No country was ever easier to spy on, Tom, no nation so open-hearted with its secrets, so quick to air them, confide them, or…

— John Le Carre

“In three years of backbreaking studies that, according to Madison , "exacted perhaps the most severe of Jefferson's public labors," Jefferson had almost single-handedly…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“That government is best which rules least," quoted in Torbet. Leland was a Baptist spokesman and pastor who knew Thomas Jefferson, circa 1760. No,…

— Robert G. Torbet

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of…

— John F. Kennedy

Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived…

— Thomas R. Pickering

“that government is best which rules least," John Leland Baptist spokesman who knew Thomas Jefferson, circa 1760.”

— Robert G. Torbet