Errors Quote by John Adams

“But this does not detract from the wisdom of his faith in the people and his constant insistence that they be left to manage…

— Calvin Coolidge

“I do not believe that Mr. Jefferson ever hated me. On the contrary, I believe he always like me: but he detested Hamilton and…

— John Adams

“Thomas Jefferson still survives”

— John Adams

Thomas Jefferson survives.

— John Adams

“Rather than adjust his expectations in the face of disappointment, he (Jefferson) tended to bury them deeper inside himself and regard the disjunction between…

— Anonymous

“Perhaps, in that eerily instinctive way in which he always grasped the difference between the essential and the peripheral, he literally felt in his…

— Joseph J. Ellis

Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.”

— Jon Meacham

“[T]he great decided effective Majority is now for the Republic," he told Jefferson in late October 1792, but whether it would endure for even…

— Melanie Randolph Miller

Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become…

— Alexander Hamilton

“It was of course Jefferson’s gift at one time or another to put with eloquence the “right” answer to every moral question. In practice,…

— Gore Vidal

“Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the…

— Thomas Jefferson