Thomas Jefferson's genius is of the old French school. It conceives better than it combines.
Thomas Jefferson has a reputation for literature, science, and a happy talent of composition.
Thomas Jefferson is aware of the gross inconsistency between the principles of the declaration of independence and the fact of negro slavery, but he had not the spirit of martyrdom.
Thomas Jefferson is a man whose his talents were of the highest order, his ambition transcendent, and his disposition to intrigue irrepressible.
Thomas Jefferson is a man whose attachment to his friends - or rather to those of whom he could make useful to himself - was thoroughgoing and exemplary.
Thomas Jefferson is but a boy to John Adams. Adams was at least ten years older than him in age and more than twenty years older than him in politics.
Thomas Jefferson is the drafter of the declaration of independence because of his writing skills and the fact that he is a virginian.