American democracy Quote by Henry Adams

“The document that heralded our national revolution, the Declaration of Independence, was penned by Thomas Jefferson. Within that text, he did not cover any…

— Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

— Walter Legge

Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.

— Richard Brookhiser

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hated each other so much. But that hate that they had for each other did not come before the…

— David Scott

Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And…

— Adam Davidson

“Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out…

— R.B. Bernstein

It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die.…

— James Truslow Adams

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation…

— George Will

“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they…

— Wynton Marsalis

These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be…

— Brian Stelter

Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they spread their…

— Heather Cox Richardson

This has all the appearance of a foreign power trying to undermine structures of legitimacy of an American election. That is a serious matter.…

— Michael Gerson