When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.