Jefferson Quote by Stephen Ambrose

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

— Stephen Ambrose

Famous Quotes on: Honesty, Wisdom, Thomas Jefferson Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul…

— William Shakespeare

Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president…

— Jordan Peele

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

— Stephen Ambrose

The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

— Shane Claiborne

There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not…

— Francois Rabelais

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically…

— Derwin L. Gray

“My avant garde planters complete, they now yearned to be occupied.”

— Matt Puchalski

Don't worry about a sugar planter. Give him a horse and he'll ride to his own funeral.

— Curt Siodmak

Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but…

— Henry David Thoreau