Thomas Jefferson

• “Two hundred years ago, in 1808, Thomas Jefferson oversaw an infrastructure plan that envisioned the Homestead Act, the transcontinental railroads, and the Erie Canal.”

  Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: A Metropolitan Strategy for America's Future

• “Like a good diplomat, he suggested a compromise: “The Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “Patrick Henry reportedly played the lute, flute, violin, harpsichord, and pianoforte; Thomas Jefferson was an exceptional violinist; and Robert Carter of Nomini Hall possessed “a good ear for Music, a vastly delicate Taste and . . . good instruments,” including a variety of German flutes and an organ “built in part according to his own design.””

  Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

• “States of America, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, of the said”

  Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies

• “To Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, who formed a faction they called “republican” but that was promptly labeled Anti-Federalist, federalism emphasized the diffusion of power to levels of government closest to the people and furthest from royalism—at that time, the states.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Washington, D.C., 1903—1904, 10 vols.”

  Simon & Schuster: Robert Morris

• “One day, while Thomas Jefferson was a student at William and Mary College, at Williamsburg, a young friend named Patrick Henry dropped in to see him, and announced that he had come to Williamsburg to be admitted to the bar.”

  American Men of Action

• “Early History of the University of Virginia, as contained in the letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell.”

  Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia

• “Critics like the pamphleteer James Thomson Cal-lender secretly subsidized by the Anti-Federalist Thomas Jefferson evidently infuriated Washington.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “Two years later, concerned citizens nominated West Quoddy Head, farther down the coast, as a more suitable position, and in 1806 Thomas Jefferson had ordered the construction of a rubblestone lighthouse on the spot.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Killing Kind

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