Thomas Jefferson Quotes
One might as well make a sailor a cock, or a soldier a goose, as a President of Andrew Jackson.
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.
Thomas Jefferson Comment About the fitness of Andrew Johnson as President Quoted by Edward Coles, 1828 Quoted in Nancy Isenberg. “White Trash.” 1876
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Hamilton thought that the Executive Branch should be co-equal with the Judicial Branch and lifetime tenure should apply to both. This quotation is very important as we consider developing countries and emerging democracies. Some in the third world have Presidents for Life—a concept that most democracies scoff at. But the stability and the independence was important enough to some of the Founding Fathers was actually advocated and considered as we formed the American Democracy.
Defending himself against the charge that he had fathered an illegitimate child:
The naval hero was approached as to his reception to a presidential draft. His famous response eliminated most interest in him. If Congress selected the President, he may well have won.
Upon the death of President William Henry Harrison a month after he took office, John Tyler, the Vice President, assumed the Presidency according to the Constitution. This Vice President assuming the Presidency was shocking to many.
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.
