Accurate Quote by John Steele Gordon

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

“The fatal conceit of intellectuals, he said, is to think that smart people can design an economy or a society better than the apparently…

— David Boaz

“America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises. So was Jefferson. In his head and…

— 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

“Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.”

— Patrick Mendis

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in…

— Lillian Hellman

“The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of life, everyone wants to…

— Paul Krugman

“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths of artificially…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman," by which he meant that those at the top of the heap use intellectuals as…

— Anonymous

[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between…

— Jeffrey Rosen

“The American Revolution and its aftermath coincided with two great transformations in the late eighteenth century. In the political sphere, there had been a…

— Ron Chernow

Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but by the manner in which they act, the way they see themselves, and…

— Frank Furedi