Extract from Ronald Reagan’s Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the University of Virginia

it’s not just students and Presidents, it is every American–indeed, every human life ever touched by the daring idea of self-government–that Mr. Jefferson has influenced.

Ronald Reagan, “Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the University of Virginia,” 16 Dec. 1988. Published by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, eds., American Presidency Project (accessed 2014).