Author: Thomas Jefferson

Cited by

• Amy Kathleen Ryan (2)
  • IN: Spark (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
    FROM: Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 17, (1781), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Flame (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Paula Morris (1)
  • IN: Unbroken (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The position of New Orleans certainly destines it to be greatest city the world has ever seen.
    FROM: NULL, (1804), NULL, US
• Jodi Picoult (1)
  • IN: Sing You Home (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
    FROM: Letter to Francis W. Gilmer, (1816), Letter, US
• James Rollins (1)
  • IN: The Devil Colony (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Science is my passion, politics, my duty.
    FROM: Letter to Harry Innes, 1791, (1791), Letter, US
• Felix Riley (1)
  • IN: The Set Up (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
    FROM: Letter to John Taylor, (1816), Letter, US
• Vince Flynn (1)
  • IN: Term Limits (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: … Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government… it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
    FROM: Declaration of Independence, (1776), Legal Document, US
• Dean Koontz (1)
  • IN: Seize the Night (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. And thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine
    FROM: Letters of Thomas Jefferson, (1779), Letter, US
• Darien Gee (1)
  • IN: Friendship Bread (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
    FROM: Letter to Maria Cosway, (1786), Letter, US
• Jack Ketchum (1)
  • IN: Right to Life (1998) Thriller, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: …endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights… among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…
    FROM: Declaration of Independence, (1776), NULL, US
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Spermacetti Whale found by the Nantuckois, is an active, fierce animal, and requires vast address and boldness in the fishermen.
    FROM: Thomas Jefferson's Whale Memorial to the French minister in 1778, (1778), Letter, US