Jeffersonian Quotes

#1. The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it gave to the individual the right to worship any God he chose or no god.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. To achieve these Jeffersonian ends, Alexander Hamilton - Jefferson's philosophical rival - devised an ingenious strategy that entailed a strong manufacturing base, a national banking system, a centralized federal government, and an export-led economic scheme protected by the U.S. Navy.

Patrick Mendis

#3. Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the globe, and even though he be charged with provincial selfishness - to preserve America as an uncontaminated laboratory.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#4. Basically [Louise] Brandeis was a Jeffersonian. And you say the timing is great, and it is in a lot of senses, except not for [Tomas] Jefferson, because this is a Hamiltonian moment, and he's the rock star of the minute with a great musical.

Jeffrey Rosen

#5. The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.

Benjamin Tucker

#6. The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

Alistair Cooke

#7. While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#8. The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Dick Morris

#9. I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

Gore Vidal

#10. Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

Benjamin Tucker

#11. Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

Charles A. Beard

#12. Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.

Patrick Mendis

#13. Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.

Thomas Woods

#14. Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.

Alistair Cooke

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

Pat Robertson

#16. We are not gonna be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy.

Barack Obama

#17. And perhaps most important, he gave the nation the idea of American progress - the animating spirit that the future could be better than the present or the past. The greatest American politicians since have prospered by projecting a Jeffersonian vision that the country's finest hours lay ahead.

Jon Meacham

#18. My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

Jacob K. Javits

#19. Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.

Robert Dallek

#20. I don't think Iraq could be transformed overnight into a democracy. How can you take a country that doesn't have any kind of tradition of democracy, where its people have been brutalized and repressed for decades, and suddenly impose Jeffersonian ideals?

Elaine Sciolino

#21. The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government is just a limited power to make things go better.

Jerry Brown

#22. Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government.

Henry Rollins

#23. We don't always know when or why, but these memories come back to us, reminders of what we did and who we were in another time.

John Meyer

#24. The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.

Lyle W. Dorsett

#25. To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.

Erwin McManus

#26. we Do as the ascendants to GOD ; the prisoners and the unemployeds Do , we Forget the Pain & Raise Hope ~

Mahmoud Darwish

#27. What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.

Michael Connelly

#28. Did he, like most men, possess the superpower of knowing just when we women have turned a corner, only to swoop in and fuck shit up for us all over again? As

Andi Dorfman

#29. The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God.

Tony Evans

#30. I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.

Shania Twain

#31. They got the guns, but we got the numbers.

Jim Morrison

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J.P. Delaney