Politics Quote by Robert G. Torbet

“That government is best which rules least," quoted in Torbet. Leland was a Baptist spokesman and pastor who knew Thomas Jefferson, circa 1760. No,…

— Robert G. Torbet

“According to the Constitution as ratified, the legislature was to be the most powerful and important branch of government. Jefferson echoed this theme in…

— Brion T. McClanahan

“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

It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what is constitutional…

— Walter E. Williams

Thomas Jefferson survives.

— John Adams

“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

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church…

— Jimmy Carter

“A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. —Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to James Madison” (1787)”

— Raine Miller

“Yet, if the phrase “separation of church and state” appears in no official founding document, then what is the source of that phrase? And…

— David Barton

“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

“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

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

— Pat Robertson