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“My mind has been long fixed to bow to the judgment of the world, who will judge me by my acts, and will never take counsel from me as to what that judgment should be.”
― Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

“Leadership, Jefferson was learning, meant knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts as well as the minds of the larger world.”
― Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

“The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe

“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.…1 Nothing is required for this enlightenment … except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters. —IMMANUEL KANT, “What Is Enlightenment?”
― Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power