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.

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.

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

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

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

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.