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

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.

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

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.

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.