JEFFERSON, THOMAS

1. Were Jefferson alive today, his voice would be heard from ocean to ocean demanding that the people themselves must own the monopolies.—JOHN PETER ALTGELD
   

2. He was called a demagogue and his followers a mob, but the immortal Jefferson dared to follow the best promptings of his heart. He placed man above matter, humanity above property, and, spurning the bribes of wealth and power, pleaded the cause of the common people.—WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
   

3. In his ripest life [Jefferson] gave no more conspicuous evidence of his foresight and statesmanship than in the inauguration of a policy which comprehended in its scope the exploration and settlement of the entire trans-Mississippi region.—GENERAL GREELY, Explorers & Travellers
   

4. 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.—JEFFERSON Epitaph, written for himself
   

5. Since the days when Jefferson expounded his code of political philosophy, the whole world has become his pupil.—MICHAEL MACWHITE
   

6. A gentleman of thirty-two who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, dance a minuet and play the violin.—JAMES PARTON, Life of Jefferson
   

7. The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, but in his attitude toward mankind.—WOODROW WILSON