Persuasion Quote by Jon Meacham

“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

“Classing Jefferson with George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, both of whom were also reluctant to speak at length in public, Adams said, “A public…

— Jon Meacham

“When we seek to understand liberty, equality, progress, constitutional governance, separation of church and state, and the meaning of the American Revolution, we do…

— R.B. Bernstein

“In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he was consistent: the wanted the best…

— Thomas J. Craughwell

“In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. —Thomas Jefferson”

— Merrick Rosenberg

“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

“Deeply reluctant to judge a Founder as wanting in moral force, modern commentators retreat to a range of adjectives such as ‘flawed,’ ‘human,’ ‘contradictory,’…

— Henry Wiencek

“As Thomas Jefferson proclaimed, “In matters of fashion, swim with the current. In matters of conscience, stand like a rock.”

— John C. Maxwell

“Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of…

— Jon Meacham

“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

“Some talked,some wrote, and some fought to promote and establish it, but you, Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson thought for us all”

— Benjamin Rush

“When the boys were little, I used to take them to the gleaming white Jefferson Memorial at the edge of the Tidal Basin. Under…

— Khizr Khan