Jared Sparks Quotes
Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Journey to America. Translated by George Lawrence, edited by J. P. Mayer, Yale University Press, 1960.
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.
At that time, the right wing of the Republican party was so anti-Federal Government, that they would de facto veto any Washington Politician who tried to get the Presidential nomination.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it is claimed by some right wing conservatives was very ill at the famed 1945 Yalta Conference with Churchill and Stalin. They argue that he gave Stalin too much as he was too ill to stand up to Stalin. Their myth is that “The Soviets got Eastern Europe because FDR was sick.” However Churchill was in fine physical shape and he and Roosevelt had worked out a style of dealing with Stalin where Churchill was the aggressive one and Roosevelt was the nice guy. The President’s physician did not observe any deterioration however—see 643318—and viewed FDR as behaving normally, Lord Moran, not as familiar with Roosevelt, made this famous statement which is used by those arguing that FDR was impaired as their main source of evidence other than the result.
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Jared Sparks was an American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister. He served as President of Harvard College (now Harvard University) from 1849 to 1853.
