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“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

I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy.

— Charlie Sheen

“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

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

— Stephen Ambrose

“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

“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

“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

“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

Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that "speak" about the basic nature of their…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that,…

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Merrick Rosenberg

“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