Notable Comments on Jefferson (20th Century) - Revision history

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<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 12:48, 22 April 2010</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 21:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 21:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1962 April 29.''' (John F. Kennedy, Remarks at a Dinner honoring Nobel Prize Winners). "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. Someone once said that Thomas Jefferson was a gentleman of 32 who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, and dance the minuet."<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/877844 ''Public papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy; containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President, 1961-1963''] (Washington D.C.: GPO, 1962-1964), 1:161.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1962 April 29.''' (John F. Kennedy, Remarks at a Dinner honoring Nobel Prize Winners). "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. Someone once said that Thomas Jefferson was a gentleman of 32 who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, and dance the minuet."<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/877844 ''Public papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy; containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President, 1961-1963''] (Washington D.C.: GPO, 1962-1964), 1:161.</ref></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">'''1963 April 16.''' (Martin Luther King, Jr. "Letter from <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">a </span>Birmingham Jail"). "<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter </span>I gradually gained a <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">measure </span>of satisfaction from <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">the label. Was not Jesus </span>an extremist <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">for love</span>...<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">And </span>Thomas Jefferson<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">: </span>'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal'<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">...</span><ref>King, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/268783 ''Why We Can't Wait''] (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), 88.</ref></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">'''1963 April 16.''' (Martin Luther King, Jr. "Letter from Birmingham <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">City </span>Jail"). "<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">...</span>I gradually gained a <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">bit </span>of satisfaction from <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">being considered </span>an extremist...<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Was not </span>Thomas Jefferson <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">an extremist - </span>'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">.</span>'<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"</span><ref>King, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/268783 ''Why We Can't Wait''] (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), 88.</ref></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1989.''' (Jerzy Kosinki). "In every Pole there is Jefferson more than anyone else, a love of freedom, free expression-and having a house of one's own."<ref>Quoted in ''Washington Post'', April 5, 1989.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1989.''' (Jerzy Kosinki). "In every Pole there is Jefferson more than anyone else, a love of freedom, free expression-and having a house of one's own."<ref>Quoted in ''Washington Post'', April 5, 1989.</ref></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 18:49, 21 April 2010</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 55:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 55:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">*[[Notable Comments on Jefferson (Contemporary)]]</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">*[[Notable Comments on Jefferson (Contemporary)]]</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">*[[Notable Comments on Jefferson (19th Century)]]</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">*[[Notable Comments on Jefferson (19th Century)]]</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">*[[Notable Comments on Jefferson (21st Century)]]</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">*[[Physical Descriptions of Jefferson]]</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">*[[Physical Descriptions of Jefferson]]</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">*[[Quotations on Jefferson in Conversation]]</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">*[[Quotations on Jefferson in Conversation]]</td></tr> </table>

ABerkes http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Notable_Comments_on_Jefferson_%2820th_Century%29&diff=11528&oldid=prev ABerkes at 14:16, 21 April 2010 2010-04-21T14:16:39Z

<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 14:16, 21 April 2010</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 44:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 44:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1996 June 7.''' (Ken Burns). "[Jefferson] is a kind of Rosetta Stone of the American experience, a massive, tectonic intelligence that has formed and rattled the fault lines of our history, our present moment, and, if we are lucky, our future. The contradictions that attend the life and actions of Thomas Jefferson are played out and made manifest in the trial, the trials of the unfolding pageant we call American history."<ref>Ken Burns, "Puzzled and Prospering: Searching for Thomas Jefferson" (speech, Monticello, Charlottesville, Va., June 7, 1996).</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1996 June 7.''' (Ken Burns). "[Jefferson] is a kind of Rosetta Stone of the American experience, a massive, tectonic intelligence that has formed and rattled the fault lines of our history, our present moment, and, if we are lucky, our future. The contradictions that attend the life and actions of Thomas Jefferson are played out and made manifest in the trial, the trials of the unfolding pageant we call American history."<ref>Ken Burns, "Puzzled and Prospering: Searching for Thomas Jefferson" (speech, Monticello, Charlottesville, Va., June 7, 1996).</ref></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">'''1996 June 7.''' (Garry Wills). "...the thing to remember from Jefferson is the power of the word. That ideas matter. That words beautifully shaped, reshape lives. That a person who has certain disadvantages and flaws and even crimes, like holding slaves, can transcend his imprisonment within reality by casting out words that take you into a new reality."<ref>Garry Wills, as quoted by Ken Burns, "Puzzled and Prospering: Searching for Thomas Jefferson" (speech, Monticello, Charlottesville, Va., June 7, 1996).</ref></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1997 July 4.''' (Colin Powell, Independence Day Ceremonies at Monticello). "...the man who captured in words, better than anyone before or since, the essence of what makes America special."<ref>Ibid., 53-4.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1997 July 4.''' (Colin Powell, Independence Day Ceremonies at Monticello). "...the man who captured in words, better than anyone before or since, the essence of what makes America special."<ref>Ibid., 53-4.</ref></td></tr> </table>

ABerkes http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Notable_Comments_on_Jefferson_%2820th_Century%29&diff=11527&oldid=prev ABerkes at 14:09, 21 April 2010 2010-04-21T14:09:57Z

<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 14:09, 21 April 2010</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 43:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 43:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1996 April 13.''' (Lady Margaret Thatcher, Founder's Day Ceremonies). "...in the history of liberty [Jefferson is] a great figure everywhere in the world."<ref>''Lady Margaret Thatcher at Monticello, on the Occasion of the 253rd Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson and the Presentation of the First Thomas Jefferson Medal for Statesmanship, April 13, 1996''. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 1996.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1996 April 13.''' (Lady Margaret Thatcher, Founder's Day Ceremonies). "...in the history of liberty [Jefferson is] a great figure everywhere in the world."<ref>''Lady Margaret Thatcher at Monticello, on the Occasion of the 253rd Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson and the Presentation of the First Thomas Jefferson Medal for Statesmanship, April 13, 1996''. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 1996.</ref></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">'''1996 June 7.''' (Ken Burns). "[Jefferson] is a kind of Rosetta Stone of the American experience, a massive, tectonic intelligence that has formed and rattled the fault lines of our history, our present <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">momen</span>, and, if we are lucky, our future. The contradictions that attend the life and actions of Thomas Jefferson are played out and made manifest in the trial, the trials of the unfolding pageant we call American history."<ref>Ken Burns, "Puzzled and Prospering: Searching for Thomas Jefferson" (speech, Monticello, Charlottesville, Va., June 7, 1996).</ref></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">'''1996 June 7.''' (Ken Burns). "[Jefferson] is a kind of Rosetta Stone of the American experience, a massive, tectonic intelligence that has formed and rattled the fault lines of our history, our present <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">moment</span>, and, if we are lucky, our future. The contradictions that attend the life and actions of Thomas Jefferson are played out and made manifest in the trial, the trials of the unfolding pageant we call American history."<ref>Ken Burns, "Puzzled and Prospering: Searching for Thomas Jefferson" (speech, Monticello, Charlottesville, Va., June 7, 1996).</ref></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1997 July 4.''' (Colin Powell, Independence Day Ceremonies at Monticello). "...the man who captured in words, better than anyone before or since, the essence of what makes America special."<ref>Ibid., 53-4.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1997 July 4.''' (Colin Powell, Independence Day Ceremonies at Monticello). "...the man who captured in words, better than anyone before or since, the essence of what makes America special."<ref>Ibid., 53-4.</ref></td></tr> </table>

ABerkes http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Notable_Comments_on_Jefferson_%2820th_Century%29&diff=11526&oldid=prev ABerkes: ken burns 2010-04-21T14:08:45Z

<p>ken burns</p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 14:08, 21 April 2010</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 42:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 42:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1996 April 13.''' (Lady Margaret Thatcher, Founder's Day Ceremonies). "...in the history of liberty [Jefferson is] a great figure everywhere in the world."<ref>''Lady Margaret Thatcher at Monticello, on the Occasion of the 253rd Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson and the Presentation of the First Thomas Jefferson Medal for Statesmanship, April 13, 1996''. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 1996.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1996 April 13.''' (Lady Margaret Thatcher, Founder's Day Ceremonies). "...in the history of liberty [Jefferson is] a great figure everywhere in the world."<ref>''Lady Margaret Thatcher at Monticello, on the Occasion of the 253rd Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson and the Presentation of the First Thomas Jefferson Medal for Statesmanship, April 13, 1996''. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 1996.</ref></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">'''1996 June 7.''' (Ken Burns). "[Jefferson] is a kind of Rosetta Stone of the American experience, a massive, tectonic intelligence that has formed and rattled the fault lines of our history, our present momen, and, if we are lucky, our future. The contradictions that attend the life and actions of Thomas Jefferson are played out and made manifest in the trial, the trials of the unfolding pageant we call American history."<ref>Ken Burns, "Puzzled and Prospering: Searching for Thomas Jefferson" (speech, Monticello, Charlottesville, Va., June 7, 1996).</ref></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1997 July 4.''' (Colin Powell, Independence Day Ceremonies at Monticello). "...the man who captured in words, better than anyone before or since, the essence of what makes America special."<ref>Ibid., 53-4.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1997 July 4.''' (Colin Powell, Independence Day Ceremonies at Monticello). "...the man who captured in words, better than anyone before or since, the essence of what makes America special."<ref>Ibid., 53-4.</ref></td></tr> </table>

ABerkes http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Notable_Comments_on_Jefferson_%2820th_Century%29&diff=11521&oldid=prev ABerkes: thatcher 2010-04-21T11:57:06Z

<p>thatcher</p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 11:57, 21 April 2010</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 40:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 40:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1994 July 4.''' (David McCullough, Independence Day Ceremonies at Monticello). "All honor to Jefferson in our own world now, in 1994. We can never know enough about him. Indeed we may judge our own performance in how seriously and with what effect we take his teachings to heart. When he wrote the [[Declaration of Independence]], he was speaking to the world then, but speaking to us also, across time. The ideas are transcendent, as is so much else that is bedrock to what we believe as a people, what we stand for, so many principles that have their origins here, with the mind and spirit of Thomas Jefferson."<ref>In [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=7863 ''The Great Birthday of Our Republic''] (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2003), 40.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1994 July 4.''' (David McCullough, Independence Day Ceremonies at Monticello). "All honor to Jefferson in our own world now, in 1994. We can never know enough about him. Indeed we may judge our own performance in how seriously and with what effect we take his teachings to heart. When he wrote the [[Declaration of Independence]], he was speaking to the world then, but speaking to us also, across time. The ideas are transcendent, as is so much else that is bedrock to what we believe as a people, what we stand for, so many principles that have their origins here, with the mind and spirit of Thomas Jefferson."<ref>In [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=7863 ''The Great Birthday of Our Republic''] (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2003), 40.</ref></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">'''1996 April 13.''' (Lady Margaret Thatcher, Founder's Day Ceremonies). "...in the history of liberty [Jefferson is] a great figure everywhere in the world."<ref>''Lady Margaret Thatcher at Monticello, on the Occasion of the 253rd Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson and the Presentation of the First Thomas Jefferson Medal for Statesmanship, April 13, 1996''. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 1996.</ref></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1997 July 4.''' (Colin Powell, Independence Day Ceremonies at Monticello). "...the man who captured in words, better than anyone before or since, the essence of what makes America special."<ref>Ibid., 53-4.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1997 July 4.''' (Colin Powell, Independence Day Ceremonies at Monticello). "...the man who captured in words, better than anyone before or since, the essence of what makes America special."<ref>Ibid., 53-4.</ref></td></tr> </table>

ABerkes http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Notable_Comments_on_Jefferson_%2820th_Century%29&diff=11520&oldid=prev ABerkes at 20:42, 20 April 2010 2010-04-20T20:42:06Z

<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 20:42, 20 April 2010</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 24:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 24:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1989.''' (Jerzy Kosinki). "In every Pole there is Jefferson more than anyone else, a love of freedom, free expression-and having a house of one's own."<ref>Quoted in ''Washington Post'' April 5,1989.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1989.''' (Jerzy Kosinki). "In every Pole there is Jefferson more than anyone else, a love of freedom, free expression-and having a house of one's own."<ref>Quoted in ''Washington Post'' April 5,1989.</ref></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">'''1989 September 20.''' (George H. W. Bush). "...Jefferson surveyed a horizon that no one else could see."<ref>"Remarks by the President, Governor Gerald Baliles, Governor Terry Branstad and Secretary Laura Cavazos During University Convocation," September 28, 1989, in ''The President’s Education Summit with Governors: 1989 September 27-28.'' [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=153471 Unpublished manuscript], Jefferson Library.</ref></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1989.''' (Zdenek Janicek, after reading the Declaration of Independence to Polish workers). "Americans understood these rights more than 200 years ago...we are only now learning to believe that we are entitled to the same rights."<ref>Quoted in ''New York Times'' November 28, 1989.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1989.''' (Zdenek Janicek, after reading the Declaration of Independence to Polish workers). "Americans understood these rights more than 200 years ago...we are only now learning to believe that we are entitled to the same rights."<ref>Quoted in ''New York Times'' November 28, 1989.</ref></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 20:29, 20 April 2010</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 34:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 34:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1993 January 17.''' (Bill Clinton, Independence Day Ceremonies at Monticello). "Thomas Jefferson was one of our greatest presidents and perhaps our most brilliant president...He believed in the power of ideas which have made this country great...Jefferson believed in public service."<ref>Quoted in [http://www.dailyprogress.com/ ''Daily Progress'']. January 18, 1993.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1993 January 17.''' (Bill Clinton, Independence Day Ceremonies at Monticello). "Thomas Jefferson was one of our greatest presidents and perhaps our most brilliant president...He believed in the power of ideas which have made this country great...Jefferson believed in public service."<ref>Quoted in [http://www.dailyprogress.com/ ''Daily Progress'']. January 18, 1993.</ref></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">'''1993 April 13.''' (Mikhail Gorbachev, Founder's Day Ceremonies, University of Virginia). "For myself I found one thing to be true: having once begun a dialogue with Jefferson one continues the conversation with him forever."<ref>[http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=154254 Unpublished manuscript], Jefferson Library.</ref></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1994 July 4.''' (David McCullough, Independence Day Ceremonies at Monticello). "All honor to Jefferson in our own world now, in 1994. We can never know enough about him. Indeed we may judge our own performance in how seriously and with what effect we take his teachings to heart. When he wrote the [[Declaration of Independence]], he was speaking to the world then, but speaking to us also, across time. The ideas are transcendent, as is so much else that is bedrock to what we believe as a people, what we stand for, so many principles that have their origins here, with the mind and spirit of Thomas Jefferson."<ref>In [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=7863 ''The Great Birthday of Our Republic''] (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2003), 40.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1994 July 4.''' (David McCullough, Independence Day Ceremonies at Monticello). "All honor to Jefferson in our own world now, in 1994. We can never know enough about him. Indeed we may judge our own performance in how seriously and with what effect we take his teachings to heart. When he wrote the [[Declaration of Independence]], he was speaking to the world then, but speaking to us also, across time. The ideas are transcendent, as is so much else that is bedrock to what we believe as a people, what we stand for, so many principles that have their origins here, with the mind and spirit of Thomas Jefferson."<ref>In [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=7863 ''The Great Birthday of Our Republic''] (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2003), 40.</ref></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 20:13, 20 April 2010</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 5:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 5:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1930.''' (Allen Tate, ''On the Father of Liberty''). "Jefferson had many charms; was democratic; still--and yet What should one do? The family arms On coach and spoon he wisely set Against historical alarms: For quality not being loath, Nor quantity, nor the fame of both."<ref>''Sewanee Review.'' January 1930.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1930.''' (Allen Tate, ''On the Father of Liberty''). "Jefferson had many charms; was democratic; still--and yet What should one do? The family arms On coach and spoon he wisely set Against historical alarms: For quality not being loath, Nor quantity, nor the fame of both."<ref>''Sewanee Review.'' January 1930.</ref></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">'''ca. 1938.''' (Frank Lloyd Wright on the Jefferson Memorial). "Thomas Jefferson? Were that gentleman alive today he would be the first condemn the stupid erudition mistaken in his honor...in terms of the feudal art and thought that clung to him then, deliberately to make of him now, a fashionable effigy of reaction instead of a character appreciated by his own people as a noble spirit of progress and freedom."<ref>Merill Peterson. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5717 ''The Jefferson Image in the American Mind'']. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962), 426.</ref></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">'''ca. 1938.''' (Frank Lloyd Wright on the Jefferson Memorial). "Thomas Jefferson? Were that gentleman alive today he would be the first <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">to </span>condemn the stupid erudition mistaken in his honor...in terms of the feudal art and thought that clung to him then, deliberately to make of him now, a fashionable effigy of reaction instead of a character appreciated by his own people as a noble spirit of progress and freedom."<ref>Merill Peterson. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5717 ''The Jefferson Image in the American Mind'']. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962), 426.</ref></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1940.''' (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Address at the Jackson Day Dinner). "Thomas Jefferson is a hero to me despite the fact that the theories of the French Revolutionists at times overexcite his practical judgment. He is a hero because, in his many-sided genius, he too did the big job that hen had to be done-to establish the new republic as a real democracy and the inalienable rights of man, instead of a restricted suffrage in the hands of a small oligarchy. Jefferson realized that if the people were free to get and discourse all the facts, their composite judgment would be better than the judgment of a self-perpetuating few. That is why I think of Jefferson as belonging to the rank and file of both major political parties today."<ref>Samuel Rosenman, ed. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223284653 The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt'']. (New York: Macmillan, 1938-), 5:613-614.</ref></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">'''1940.''' (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Address at the Jackson Day Dinner). "Thomas Jefferson is a hero to me despite the fact that the theories of the French Revolutionists at times overexcite his practical judgment. He is a hero because, in his many-sided genius, he too did the big job that hen had to be done-to establish the new republic as a real democracy and the inalienable rights of man, instead of a restricted suffrage in the hands of a small oligarchy. Jefferson realized that if the people were free to get and discourse all the facts, their composite judgment would be better than the judgment of a self-perpetuating few. That is why I think of Jefferson as belonging to the rank and file of both major political parties today."<ref>Samuel Rosenman, ed. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223284653 The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt'']. (New York: Macmillan, 1938-), 5:613-614.</ref></td></tr> </table>

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