We are familiar with what we call "graft," the use by business men of the powers of government to get trade advantage for themselves, and we have a school of old-time thinkers, calling themselves "jeffersonian Democrats," who insist that if only there had never been any government favors, economic equality and democracy would have endured forever in our country.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
Dear Sam: Along with a vast concourse of other office seekers, I attended the Democratic State Convention at Indianapolis yesterday, and got my hide again saturated with jeffersonian and Jacksonian doctrine.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett
The change of parties in 1800, when the jeffersonian Democracy came in, altered the policy of the government, but not the character of the officials.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt