Top 30 President Jefferson Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About President Jefferson

#1. Yself standing in front of Monticello wearing a veil and a wedding gown, hand in hand with a very muscular President Jefferson.

Anne Fortier

#2. Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. For thirty-six of the forty years between 1800 and 1840, either Jefferson or a self-described adherent of his served as president of the United States: James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren.32 (John Quincy Adams, a one-term president, was the single exception.)

Jon Meacham

#4. [F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

Russ Carnahan

#6. No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. All presidents but Jefferson have argued that their first job was to keep us safe. All presidents but Jefferson were wrong. If you read the Constitution, you will see that the President's first job - as Jefferson understood well - is to keep us free.

Andrew Napolitano

#8. I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people? What was I supposed to say? That my father is the president, and my mother is his slave?

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

#9. Sir, when the love of peace degenerates into fear of war, it becomes of all passions the most despicable." - Senator Giles of Virginia, to President Thomas Jefferson, before the War of 1812

Joe Buff

#10. We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it very clear that the courts can't make a law. The Constitution is expressly clear that that's a power reserved to Congress.

Mike Huckabee

#11. I apprehend ... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. The best (remedy) I can devise would be to give future commissions to (federal) judges for six years with a re-appointability by the President with the approbation of both houses. If this would not be independence enough, I know not what would be ...

Thomas Jefferson

#15. Most Americans are unaware that Thomas Jefferson was the first American president to go to war against radical Islam. Jefferson was very concerned with Islam's war-like doctrine and its inability to separate mosque and state.

Brad Thor

#16. Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has to make it, the executive branch has to sign it and enforce it.

Mike Huckabee

#17. What Are the Odds? Here's an astonishing fact: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who were the only signers of the Declaration of Independence to become president, both died on July 4, 1826.

Kendra Hazlett Armstrong

#18. I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place.

Thomas Jefferson

#19. Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President').

Rick Perlstein

#20. From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

Jon Meacham

#21. There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Ronald Reagan

#23. The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

Thomas Jefferson

#24. President George Washington's namesake capital, once a marketplace for slave auctions, is now synonymous with democracy and freedom; so is the iconic Jefferson, who wanted to build an "Empire of Liberty" for the world.

Patrick Mendis

#25. Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.

Thomas Jefferson