Extract from François Hollande’s Remarks After Touring Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, 10 Feb. 2014 [Quote]

Together, Lafayette and Jefferson imagined something that seemed impossible—mainly American independence and the rights of—human rights and the rights of the citizen. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, and Lafayette was also involved in drafting the Rights of the Citizen,...

Extract from Frederick Douglass’s Address to the Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March 1893 [Quote]

The intellect of the negro was then, as now, the subject of learned inquiry. Mr. Jefferson, among other statesmen and philosophers, while he considered slavery an evil, entertained a rather low estimate of the negro’s mental ability. He thought that the negro might become learned in music and in...

Extract from the Report of Woodrow Wilson’s Keynote Address at the National Democratic Club’s “Jefferson Day Dinner,” 14 Apr. 1912 [Quote]

Gov. Wilson of New Jersey, speaking to the toast, “What Would Jefferson Do?” ... declared that had Jefferson lived to-day he would, with clear-sightedness, have acted on the facts as they actually are ... Monopoly, private control, the authority of privilege, the concealed mastery of a few men...

Extract from Woodrow Wilson’s Jefferson Day Address to the Common Counsel Club, 13 Apr. 1916 [Quote]

The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world ... one of the things which...

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