Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

We Americans think, in every country in transition, there’s a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

The assertion that ‚all men are created equal‘ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here’s what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

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.

I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

The term ‚the American Left‘ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind – the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Only Americans can hurt America.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it… Never.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him ‚father.‘

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.