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.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Well, let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor. . . . You're no Thomas Jefferson!

A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution.

We make no saint of Thomas Jefferson—we leave the mindless business of canonization and the worship of humans to the fanatics—but aware as we are of his many crimes and contradictions we say with confidence that his memory and example will endure long after the moral pygmies who try to blot out his name have been forgotten.