{"quotes":[{"text":"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.","author":"Benjamin Franklin","tags":["freedom","jefferson","security","thomas","thomas-jefferson"],"id":17528,"author_id":"Benjamin+Franklin"},{"text":"Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce the pacifists for somehow a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.' I think that was Jefferson. Oh wait. That was Hermann Goering. Shoot.'[Hosting the Peabody Awards for broadcasting excellence at the New York Waldorf-Astoria, June 6, 2006].","author":"Jon Stewart","tags":["indoctrination","iraq-war","jefferson","misquote","war"],"id":31519,"author_id":"Jon+Stewart"},{"text":"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large...","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["education","government","jefferson"],"id":82025,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantages.","author":"Fareed Zakaria","tags":["america","corporatism","education","elite","founding-fathers","jefferson","privilege"],"id":118134,"author_id":"Fareed+Zakaria"},{"text":"I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people? What was I supposed to say? That my father is the president, and my mother is his slave?","author":"Kimberly Brubaker Bradley","tags":["jefferson","passing","slavery"],"id":148386,"author_id":"Kimberly+Brubaker+Bradley"},{"text":"Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.","author":"Joseph J. Ellis","tags":["america","american-history","american-revolution","history","jefferson","lincoln","nationalism"],"id":153423,"author_id":"Joseph+J.+Ellis"},{"text":"...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will be a troublesome one, to whomsoever it falls, and our John has been too much worn to contend much longer with conflicting factions. I call him our John, because, when you were at the Cul de sac at Paris, he appeared to me to be almost as much your boy as.","author":"John Adams","tags":["agnosticism","belief","blasphemy","confessions-of-faith","creeds","episcopal","europeans","flourens","golden-rule","herschel","isaac-newton","jean-pierre-flourens","jefferson","jews","judaism","liberal-science","matter-and-spirit","newton","presbyterian","science","thomas-jefferson","university-of-virginia","virginia","william-herschel"],"id":192799,"author_id":"John+Adams"},{"text":"President George Washington’s namesake capital, once a marketplace for slave auctions, is now synonymous with democracy and freedom; so is the iconic Jefferson, who wanted to build an “Empire of Liberty” for the world.","author":"Patrick Mendis","tags":["dc","democracy","empire-of-liberty","freeedom","george-washington","jefferson","washington"],"id":227253,"author_id":"Patrick+Mendis"},{"text":"Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out of constitutional shape, converting it into a copy of the British government, built on debt, corruption, and influence. Hamilton's goal, Jefferson charged, was to ally the rich and well born with the government at the people's expense, creating a corrupt aristocracy leagued with the government against the people and destroying the virtue that was the basis of republican government. Only a republic could preserve liberty, Jefferson insisted, and only virtue among the people could preserve a republic.","author":"R.B. Bernstein","tags":["constitution","government","hamilton","history","jefferson"],"id":236540,"author_id":"R.B.+Bernstein"},{"text":"Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["cost","jefferson","pride","thomas"],"id":274821,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}