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  1. Gordon S. Wood _ Friends Divided: John Adams

    {John Adams} is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. This is all the ill which can possibly be said of him.
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  2. Carl Sagan _ The Demon-Haunted World:

    But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over.
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  3. John Adams _ The Adams-Jefferson Letters:

    This society {Jesuits} has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or 's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.{}"
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  4. Carl Sagan _ The Demon-Haunted World:

    Nevertheless, {Jefferson} believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule.
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  5. Thomas Jefferson _ The Inaugural Speeches and

    If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it."
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  6. John Adams _ The Adams-Jefferson Letters:

    I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced! With the rational respect that is due to it, knavish priests have added prostitutions of it, that fill or might fill the blackest and bloodiest pages of human history.{}
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  7. Dumas Malone _ Jefferson the Virginian

    The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
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  8. Joseph J. Ellis _ American Sphinx: The Character

    God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars.
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  9. Joseph J. Ellis _ American Sphinx: The Character

    In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously obstructed natural forces to flow forward into the future. Simplicity and austerity, not equality or individualism, were the messages of his inaugural march. It was a minimalist statement about a purging of excess and a recovery of essence.
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  10. Joseph J. Ellis _ American Sphinx: The Character

    Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.
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