Thomas Jefferson Quotes
I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General [Andrew] Jackson President. He is one of the most unfit men I know for such a place.
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, 3rd President of the United States (Democratic Republican, VA), To Daniel Webster, 1824
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Defending himself against the charge that he had fathered an illegitimate child:
Although the Jacksonian Democrats were the political successors to the Jeffersonian Democratic Republicans, Jefferson found Jackson wanting as a potential president. Although Jefferson had made this statement during the 1824 Election, it did not become public until the Election of 1828 — Jackson’s second term. At that time Edward Coles, Formerly James Madison’s Secretary, disclosed the quotation.
In many recent Presidential elections many have thought a Vice Presidential candidate superior to the Presidential candidate. Such was also the case in 1900.
Smith had written to most of the then likely Presidential candidates of both major parties asking for their position on the Mormons who were facing persecution wherever they went. None of the politicians would make any satisfactory commitments. Smith took Direct Action and became the only major religious official to have run for the Presidency of the United States until Pat Robertson tried and failed in 2000. Smith’s assassination shortly thereafter cut his run for the Presidency short before it made much headway and politically he had no chance to affect the race.
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States under John Adams between 1797 and 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national levels.
