Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.

The government invented the Internet.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff. Absorbing and illuminating, this new biography will endure.

It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church.

[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.