Supported Jefferson Quote by Harlow Giles Unger

“And so Jefferson wrote the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which organized the new territories of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin so that slavery…

— Allen C. Guelzo

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

— Stephen Ambrose

“As Thomas Jefferson once noted, “Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions,…

— Jim Marrs

“That there would be a political advantage in having the declaration written by a Virginian was clear, for the same reason there had been…

— David McCullough

“On the first day of the meeting that would become known as the United States Constitutional Convention, Edmund Randolph of Virginia kicked off the…

— William Hogeland

“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

“Jefferson’s decision to acquire Louisiana without seeking a constitutional amendment expanded the powers of the executive in ways that would likely have driven Jefferson…

— Jon Meacham

That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of the government of Virginia, ought…

— George Mason

Our situation illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people…

— Jefferson Davis

“By the early eighteenth century, every Virginia county had a militia of landless Whites “ready in case of any sudden eruption of Indians or…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation…

— Christopher Hitchens

The fact that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves doesn't devalue what he wrote.

— Daniel Hannan