Tomas Jefferson Quotes & Sayings

Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the tremendous devastation - and will be for quite some time - we are also seeing increased signs of recovery and help in our region. — Jo Bonner

As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying. — Chris Van Hollen

Oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were heedful for the wise to know. — J.R.R. Tolkien

When the locus of evaluation is seen as residing in the expert, it would appear that the long-range social implications are in the direction of the social control of the many by the few. — Carl R. Rogers

See your heart, and of this burning heart, your heart obediently eats. Dante — Isabelle Livingstone

Education opens eyes to see, feel, and enjoy the beauty of life in a different way. — Debasish Mridha

That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in [Louis] Brandeis, continues through the New Deal, but then it sort of peters out in the '60s because progressives in particular become more interested in extending equality to minorities, and women, and other excluded groups, and little more suspicious of these old white guys, often from the south, who were crusaders against monopolies. — Jeffrey Rosen

There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen." - — Marie Lu

I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me. — Ashton Kutcher

[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other. — Jeffrey Rosen

There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars — John Green

[Tomas] Jefferson is more out of fashion, both because of his views on race, where he's properly questioned, that part of his legacy, but also because the libertarian critique of bigness in business and government, the idea that size is a danger is something that's shared on the right when it comes to government and on the left when it comes to corporations, but not both. — Jeffrey Rosen

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

Life's too mysterious to take too serious. — Mary Engelbreit

There's been talk of YES possibly doing something on Broadway in New York. People have approached me with that idea, and there are discussions about that. — Chris Squire