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JOHN ADAMS If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callen...
KARL ROVE At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to t...
ALLEN JOHNSON Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither lib...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Well, let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor. . . ...
RONALD REAGAN Quite naturally, the men who led in stirring up the revolt against Great Britain and in keeping the ...
CHARLES A. BEARD A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution.
RICHARD DAWKINS We make no saint of Thomas Jefferson—we leave the mindless business of canonization and the worshi...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by exam...
ROBERT TROUT I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy!
CHARLIE SHEEN We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation&#...
R. J. CUTLER Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.
ANTONIN SCALIA Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

{Letter to JOHN ADAMS I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson.
DAVEED DIGGS I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promi...
CARL SAGAN Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSON If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inf...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
ROBIN QUIVERS Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Jefferson still survivies.
JOHN ADAMS If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with r...
RUSH LIMBAUGH If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with re...
RUSH LIMBAUGH He was not a [Thomas] Jefferson or a [George] Washington. But he was a solid second-tier.
DICK CHEATHAM We have a monument here for the greatest troublemakers of our history -- Thomas Jefferson and George...
DANA ROHRABACHER Now this state [that] gave us John Adams and John Kennedy has now given us John Kerry , a good man, ...
BILL CLINTON This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or JOHN ADAMS I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
GAVIN BRYARS He wants to do everything he can for the varsity program. He wants to make Thomas Jefferson as good ...
DON POWELL History is philosophy teaching by examples.
THOMAS JEFFERSON But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - ar...
CARL SAGAN Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for res...
CARL SAGAN In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he wa...
THOMAS J. CRAUGHWELL We want to be accurate. We want to know who the descendants of Thomas Jefferson are. And, if Sally H...
ROBERT GILLESPIE Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot conf...
JOHN ADAMS Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart. -...
JOHN ADAMS Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson s...
EDMUND MORGAN If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speec...
ROBIN QUIVERS ...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those t...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was someth...
RUSH D. HOLT, JR. I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a...
NICK OFFERMAN Citizens of this city voted to build on a neutral site. ... That didn't mean putting it back on the ...
GREG FLORES I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which t...
JOHN ADAMS The religious issue was dragged out, and stirred up flames of hatred and intolerance. Clergymen, mob...
SAUL K. PADOVER Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.
ORSON SCOTT CARD There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another ...
ALEX TABARROK No doubt President Jefferson was brilliant - probably the key author of the American constitution. B...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Tom Paine ha...
THOMAS A. EDISON We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind som...
JOE BIDEN If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, I would appoint him secretary of state, and then Al Gore and I...
BILL CLINTON With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, ...
JOHN DICKINSON God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
THOMAS JEFFERSON We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reaction...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, le...
THOMAS JEFFERSON How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no oth...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Books are better than television, the internet, or the computer for educating and maintaining fre...
OLIVER DEMILLE We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war up...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Here was buried Thomas Jefferson author of the Declaration of American Independence of the Statute o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the ...
JOHN TYLER Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And e...
RONALD REAGAN The Arch, formally known as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, dedicated to President Thomas...
MARY HENDRON When I walk into my office, the other portraits that I look at in addition to (Thomas) Jefferson, th...
DEAN ACHESON Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a ca...
JOHN ADAMS John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he...
MICHELE BACHMANN Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hated each other so much. But that hate that they had for ea...
DAVID SCOTT We all should be concerned if our kids don't know who Sandra Day O'Connor, John Adams, and R...
DOUG DUCEY Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works....
RONALD REAGAN But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oliga...
PAT ROBERTSON How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where...
BURL IVES Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded o...
MITCH KAPOR Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Conservatives need to be just as skeptical of government claims made about foreign policy as they ar...
THOMAS WOODS Jefferson also founded the first intentionally secularized university in America. His vision for the...
DARYL C. CORNETT People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure ...
SHARRON ANGLE A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by ...
MERCY OTIS WARREN For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.
ORHAN PAMUK We view the vote as an overwhelming endorsement of the merger.
JOHN STILL I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be aro...
MAIRA KALMAN I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The Pacific Mozart Chorale in Berkeley asked four different composers (the other three are John Adam...
DAVE BRUBECK I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a lawfirm, and tha...
SHERMAN EDWARDS He's too close - he lived well into the 20th Century, ... If you look at Thomas Jefferson and presid...
BRUCE TYLER Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine f...
M. J. ROSE I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Tom Hooper had done 'John Adams,' and David Lynch did 'Twin Peaks.' I figured I coul...
CARY FUKUNAGA The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
DUMAS MALONE There was a fascinating duality about Matthew that Daisy had never encountered in another man. At so...
LISA KLEYPAS How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any...
FOSTER FRIESS Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were gi...
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were gi...
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were gi...
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