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  • The hardy, independent farmers whom Thomas Jefferson considered the bedrock of American democracy are a truly vanishing breed.†   (source)
  • Director Sato led Anderson over to a quiet area near the bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson.†   (source)
  • All the class pictures are in there, from the seventh grade through twelfth, with individual head shots of seniors, their names followed by the names of the high schools they would have graduated from on the outside: Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Herbert Hoover, Sacred Heart.†   (source)
  • I said that as freedom fighters we could not have known of such men as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson "and not been moved to act as they were moved to act."†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson noted this while reflecting on the tiny incentive that led to the Boston Tea Party and, in turn, the American Revolution: "So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson, in fact, coined a phrase in a letter in 1789—'a wall of separation between church and state.'†   (source)
  • I was taught more about John Lennon than I was about Thomas Jefferson.†   (source)
  • Look, Sylvester, it's Thomas Jefferson!†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson considered him "the best horseman of his age."†   (source)
  • Just last night, when the lights were turned on inside the car to make Jackie visible to onlookers, he reread Thomas Jefferson's inaugural address—and found his own lacking by comparison.†   (source)
  • She read where Mr. Thomas Jefferson told George Washington that it was the wrong thing to do; that poor mountain farmers didn't have nothing but little hillside patches, and couldn't raise much corn like the big landowners in the flatlands did.†   (source)
  • He also showed that, for all the British fulminations about American usage, they could not resist adopting Americanisms: "Even to belittle, which had provoked an almost hysterical outburst from the European Magazine and London Review when Thomas Jefferson ventured to use it in 1787, was so generally accepted by 1862 that Anthony Trollope admitted it to his chaste vocabulary."†   (source)
  • He resides in the Westminster section of Elizabeth with his wife, Sarah, and two children, a son, Philip, a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School, and a daughter, Deborah, a sophomore at the University of Michigan.†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and 'Light Horse' Harry Lee …. were all Rebels….†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, died at Monticello in Virginia on July 4, 1826.†   (source)
  • "If there's no Thomas Jefferson then I say E. A. Poe is my second choice.†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, probably said it best.†   (source)
  • The dead man is Thomas Jefferson—first of the rational anarchists, my boy, and one who once almost managed to slip over his non-system through the most beautiful rhetoric ever written.†   (source)
  • And Thomas Jefferson: "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal …."†   (source)
  • What would Thomas Jefferson have thought, viewing this?†   (source)
  • It was not unnatural that John Quincy, returning to Boston after diplomatic service abroad upon his father's defeat for President by Thomas Jefferson, should become active in the affairs of his father's party.†   (source)
  • I love her, I love the ugly mustard yellow bricks of Thomas Jefferson and the magenta-tinted halls.   (source)
    Thomas Jefferson = 3rd President of the US and primary writer of the Declaration of Independence
  • She's probably braver than most of the people at Thomas Jefferson.   (source)
  • This is better than any scandal that's hit Thomas Jefferson so far.   (source)
  • It's so ironic that the hottest guy at Thomas Jefferson is on the faculty.   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson is small: you know these things.   (source)
  • I've made him lose it—probably a first in Thomas Jefferson history.   (source)
  • He graduated from Thomas Jefferson.   (source)
  • Then I think, He going to kiss me right here, in the math wing of Thomas Jefferson High School, and I almost pass out.   (source)
  • In the past I would rather have died than be seen in the halls of Thomas Jefferson on Cupid Day without a single rose.   (source)
  • There are three acceptable things to eat in the Thomas Jefferson cafeteria: A bagel, plain or with cream cheese.   (source)
  • That was twenty years ago, though, a few Years before Thomas Jefferson got the reputation for one of the highest teen suicide rates in the country.   (source)
  • I'm covered in mud; I'm absolutely freezing; and half the population of Thomas Jefferson thinks I'm a pajama-wearing freak.   (source)
  • In the Thomas Jefferson High School R & R (Rules and Regulations Handbook), it says that any student caught smoking on school property is subject to three days' suspension.   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson is about three miles outside of downtown Ridgeview—or what you can call the downtown—but only about a half mile from a small strip of dingy stores we've named the Row.   (source)
  • My stomach dips when we pass the third spot from the tennis courts, and there's Sarah Grundel's brown Chevrolet with its Thomas Jefferson Swim Team sticker—and another one, smaller, that reads GET WET—staring at me from the bumper.   (source)
  • I'm suddenly reminded of a story my parents once told me: back when Thomas Jefferson was called Suicide High, some guy hanged himself inside his own closet, right there among the mothball-smelling sweaters and old sneakers and everything.   (source)
  • As I fall through the darkness there's a tinkly, jangly song playing, like the kind of music you hear in doctors' offices and elevators, and without knowing how I know, I realize that the music is piping all the way from the guidance counselor's office at Thomas Jefferson.   (source)
  • I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format.   (source)
  • …thing, though: as we're driving there along all those familiar streets—streets I've known my whole life, streets so familiar I might as well have imagined them myself—I get this feeling like I'm floating above everything, hovering above all of the houses and the roads and the yards and the trees, going up, up, up, above Rocky's and the Rite Aid and the gas station and Thomas Jefferson and the football field and the metal bleachers where we sit and scream our heads off every homecoming.   (source)
  • The music doesn't stop, but as everyone in the room starts to pick up on the fact that Juliet Sykes—bedwetter, freak, and all-around psycho—is standing in the middle of a party giving four of the most popular girls at Thomas Jefferson the stink eye, conversation drops off and a low sound of whispering fills the room, getting louder and more insistent until it's a constant hum, until it sounds like wind or the ocean.   (source)
  • -THOMAS JEFFERSON, WRITING ABOUT SLAVERY†   (source)
  • -THOMAS JEFFERSON ABOUT THE WRITING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE†   (source)
  • He also painted a well-known portrait of Thomas Jefferson.†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson's favorite flavor was said to be vanilla.†   (source)
  • When Polly died, Thomas Jefferson helped carry her casket at her funeral.†   (source)
  • I'm Thomas Jefferson, Jr. This is Mallory Keen, Halfborn Gunderson, and Magnus Chase."†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson, Jr. looked about my age.†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson of Virginia would not arrive for another three months, not until the middle of May.†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson had gone home to Virginia in September.†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson, Jr., the guy across the hall.†   (source)
  • "Thomas Jefferson, Jr.," she said, "you and your hallmates take the prisoners.†   (source)
  • At thirty-three Thomas Jefferson was the youngest of the Virginia delegates.†   (source)
  • To Thomas Jefferson, Adams would one day write, "My friend, you and I have lived in serious times."†   (source)
  • Samuel Chase, Stephen Hopkins, and Joseph Hewes, like Thomas Jefferson, had left in September.†   (source)
  • — Thomas Jefferson, 1787 That is, I thought I was a "trained soldier" until I reported to my ship.†   (source)
  • Finally I came across a woman named Frances Holland who told me about two girls who befriended her when she was a new student in the seventh grade at Thomas Jefferson Junior High: Ruth Shilsky and Frances Moody.†   (source)
  • Although Thomas Jefferson had brought the Parisian recipe for pommes frites to the United States in 1802, french fries did not become well known in this country until the 1920s.†   (source)
  • As an early repository for Thomas Jefferson's personal collection of books on science and philosophy, the library stood as a symbol of America's commitment to the dissemination of knowledge.†   (source)
  • In fact, Thomas Jefferson was so convinced the Bible's true message was hidden that he literally cut up the pages and reedited the book, attempting, in his words, 'to do away with the artificial scaffolding and restore the genuine doctrines.'†   (source)
  • Congress adjourned on schedule and its members left town, along with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.†   (source)
  • "I was young, and then very bashful, however saucy I may have sometimes been since," he would recall long afterward to Thomas Jefferson.†   (source)
  • Now this "rebel legislature" will meet in the giant columned building designed by Thomas Jefferson, determined to rebuild the shattered state and return it to its former glory.†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson, Jr. came charging down the corridor with his bayonet fixed, my other hallmates Mallory Keen and Halfborn Gunderson close behind him.†   (source)
  • Jackie Kennedy refers to her new home as "the president's house" and takes her inspiration from Thomas Jefferson's White House, elaborately decorated by the former ambassador to France.†   (source)
  • "I say we go for Thomas Jefferson," Edith Turner had said, hands deep in the pockets of her long tunic, a fashion she always wore, people forever saying how she looked just like Bea Arthur of the TV show "Maude.†   (source)
  • Richmond was a proud city and perhaps more distinctly American than even Washington, D.C. It could even be said that the United States of America was born in Richmond, for it was there, in 1775, in Richmond's St. John's Episcopal Church, that Patrick Henry looked out on a congregation that included George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and delivered the famous "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, which fomented American rebellion, the Revolutionary War, and independence itself.†   (source)
  • He noted that the pilot, Timothy Barnes, had grown up in Elizabeth and had graduated from Hamilton Junior High and Thomas Jefferson High School.†   (source)
  • Many Americans in Thomas Jefferson's time felt acutely the paradox of fighting for liberty while holding other people in slavery.†   (source)
  • Great men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, who signed the Declaration of Independence and whom you see on our money today, agreed that God and the Bible would be their moral compasses for constructing the greatest nation on Earth.†   (source)
  • John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress, was thirty-nine, John Adams, forty, Thomas Jefferson, thirty-two, younger even than the young Rhode Island general.†   (source)
  • I'm with Thomas Jefferson.†   (source)
  • A few blocks down East Jersey Street from the Martin Building, where Steve Osner's father had his dental office and you could get a great-tasting burger at Three Brothers Luncheonette, Steve was shooting baskets at the YMHA with his best buddy, Phil Stein, both of them seniors at Thomas Jefferson High.†   (source)
  • Then: THOMAS JEFFERSON, JR. The popping of gunfire came from inside, though it sounded more like a video game than the actual thing.†   (source)
  • When John F Kennedy, our thirty-fifth president, brought together the Nobel Prize winners at the White House in 1962, he told them, "Ladies and gentlemen, 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."†   (source)
  • In a ringing preamble, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the document declared it "self-evident" that "all men are created equal," and were endowed with the "unalienable" rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."†   (source)
  • It was April 13, 1789, one of the signal days of Adams's life and also, as it happened, Thomas Jefferson's forty-sixth birthday.†   (source)
  • I can pronounce Thomas Jefferson to be chosen President] of [the] Linked] Skates] with firmness and a good grace that I don't fear.†   (source)
  • He was lively, pungent, and naturally amiable—so amiable, as Thomas Jefferson would later write, that it was impossible not to warm to him.†   (source)
  • A few more were let in on the secret, including the Republican clerk of the House, John Beckley, and Thomas Jefferson.†   (source)
  • Years later, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, Adams would describe the voyage on the Boston as symbolic of his whole life.†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson, on reaching Philadelphia, decided, "as the excessive heats of the city are coming fast," to find lodgings "on the skirts of town where I may have the benefit of circulating air."†   (source)
  • Indeed, it would be difficult for future generations to comprehend how much separated a man raised on a freeholder's farm in coastal New England from a son of Virginia such as Thomas Jefferson.†   (source)
  • On September 26, Congress took the momentous step of appointing Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson as commissioners to the Court of France, to serve with Silas Deane.†   (source)
  • He was writing to say that his grandson,Thomas Jefferson Randolph, was on his way to New England, and that if the young man did not see Adams, it would be as though he had "seen nothing."†   (source)
  • The total of Thomas Jefferson's slaves in 1776, as near as can be determined from his personal records, was about 200, which was also the approximate number owned by George Washington.†   (source)
  • For Thomas Jefferson it became a painful ordeal, as change afterchange was called for and approximately a quarter of what he had written was cut entirely.†   (source)
  • As intended, it was one of the grandest occasions of the reign of Louis XVI and his Queen, and the four Adamses and Thomas Jefferson, along with everyone of fashion in Paris, were in attendance.†   (source)
  • To Thomas Jefferson it was the "event of events," but strangely—regrettably—he was unable to accept what Adams had done at face value, or to give him any credit.†   (source)
  • Then late in the afternoon, according to several who were present in the room, he stirred and whispered clearly enough to be understood, "Thomas Jefferson survives."†   (source)
  • AT MONTICELLO, Thomas Jefferson had been unconscious since the night of July 2, his daughter Martha, his physician Robley Dunglison, and others keeping watch.†   (source)
  • His travels, his reading, the time spent in the company of men like Francis Dana and Thomas Jefferson had given him a maturity, made him conversant on a breadth of subjects that people found astonishing.†   (source)
  • In Lovell's defense, it could be said that other men, too, would, as time went on, find Abigail Adams an irresistible correspondent—young John Thaxter, as an example, and most notably Thomas Jefferson.†   (source)
  • It was his creative work that he wished most to be remembered for: Here Was Buried THOMAS JEFFERSON Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia.†   (source)
  • In Boston, at Isaac Smith's house the following day, Thomas Jefferson appeared out of the blue, to introduce himself and say that he, too, was soon to sail with his daughter, Martha, and a young mulatto slave, James Hemings.†   (source)
  • Sometime near four in the morning Jefferson spoke his last words, calling in the servants "with a strong clear voice," according to the account of his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, but which servants he called or what he said to them are unknown.†   (source)
  • TO THE GREAT SURPRISE of those who had predicted nothing but dire consequences should Thomas Jefferson ever rise to the presidency, the advent of Jefferson in the President's House turned out to be far from a radical upheaval, or a second Revolution, as he claimed.†   (source)
  • He departed eight hours before Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office at the Capitol, and even more inconspicuously than he had arrived, rolling through empty streets past darkened houses, and again with Billy Shaw and John Briesler as his companions.†   (source)
  • ONE DAY LATER, on May 11, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia from Monticello to find the city astir over a private letter he had written more than a year before that had just appeared in print in the New YorkMinerva, a strongly Federalist paper, edited by Noah Webster.†   (source)
  • The Assembly had also fled west over the Blue Ridge to Staunton in the Shenandoah Valley, but when the House of Delegates reconvened in Staunton on June 12, a young member named George Nicholas called for an inquiry into the conduct of Thomas Jefferson.†   (source)
  • That John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had died on the same day, and that it was, of all days, the Fourth of July, could not be seen as a mere coincidence: it was a "visible and palpable" manifestation of "Divine favor," wrote John Quincy in his diary that night, expressing what was felt and would be said again and again everywhere the news spread.†   (source)
  • More than half a century later, Jefferson's grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, the son of Jefferson's daughter Martha, would declare that the real father of Sally Hemings's children was Jefferson's nephew, Peter Carr, which was said to explain the striking Jefferson resemblance in the Hemings children.†   (source)
  • It was not only that Franklin's immensely popular Poor Richard's Almanack emanated from Philadelphia, but political pamphlets of such far-reaching influence as John Dickinson's Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer, Thomas Jefferson's spirited Summary View of the Rights of British America, and now, Common Sense, which was selling faster than anything ever published in America.†   (source)
  • He had a dream of reading a history of America written at some point in the future, and of a particular page saying that among the "most extraordinary events" of the year 1809 was the renewal of friendship and correspondence between the two former presidents, Mr. John Adams and Mr. Thomas Jefferson.†   (source)
  • Adams, declared the widely read paper, was unfit to lead the country, and beneath a headline declaring AN ALARM, Bache warned that unless by their votes the people were to call forth Thomas Jefferson, "the friend of the people," Adams, the "champion of kings, ranks, and titles," would be their President.†   (source)
  • On a particularly sweltering Sunday, July 28, during which he appears never to have left his Market Street lodgings, Thomas Jefferson checked his thermometer no less than fourteen times, dutifully recording every reading, from a low of 76'4 at six-twenty in the morning to a high of 85 by midafternoon.†   (source)
  • More applause followed on the appearance of Thomas Jefferson, who had been inaugurated Vice President upstairs in the Senate earlier that morning, and "like marks of approbation" greeted John Adams, who on his entrance in the wake of the two tall Virginians seemed shorter and more bulky even than usual.†   (source)
  • —Thomas Jefferson.†   (source)
  • As the Federalist party split on foreign policy and Thomas Jefferson resigned from the Cabinet to organize his followers, the Senate became a forum for criti-cism of the executive branch, and the role of executive council was assumed instead by a Cabinet of men upon whom the President could depend to share his views and be responsible to him.†   (source)
  • Exhausted, I hear Leslie's cataract of words as if through muffled layers of wool, trying without much success to piece it all together—this scrambled confessional with its hodgepodge of terms like Reichian and Jungian, Adlerian, a Disciple of Karen Homey, sublimation, gestalt, fixations, toilet training, and other things I have been aware of but never heard a human being speak of in such tones, which down South are reserved for Thomas Jefferson, Uncle Remus and the blessed Trinity.†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the declaration of Independence.†   (source)
  • —THOMAS JEFFERSON'S WHALE MEMORIAL TO THE FRENCH MINISTER IN 1778.†   (source)
  • There was a little discourse about cigars, showing him exactly why the Thomas Jefferson Five-cent Perfecto was the only cigar worthy of the name.†   (source)
  • The fellows used to say he was the "Iron Mask;" and poor George Pons went to his grave in the belief that this was the author of "Junius," who was being punished for his celebrated libel on Thomas Jefferson.†   (source)
  • In 1801 the Republicans got possession of the Government; Thomas Jefferson was named President; and he increased the influence of their party by the weight of his celebrity, the greatness of his talents, and the immense extent of his popularity.†   (source)
  • He gave the English their first taste of /to belittle/, one of the inventions of Thomas Jefferson.†   (source)
  • See also John T. Morse's Life of Thomas Jefferson in the American Statesmen series (Boston and New York, 1898), p. 2.†   (source)
  • The first sign of the dawn of a new national order came with the election of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency in 1800.†   (source)
  • The Diverging Streams—Thomas Jefferson, with his usual prevision, saw clearly more than a century ago that the American people, as they increased in numbers and in the diversity of their national interests and racial strains, would make changes in their mother tongue, as they had already made changes in the political institutions of their inheritance.†   (source)
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