-I never indeed thought him an honest, frank-dealing man, but considered him as a crooked gun, or other perverted machine, whose aim or stroke you could never be sure of.---Thomas Jefferson on Aaron Burr

- A]lways an honest Man, often a wise one, but sometimes, and in some things, absolutely out of his senses.--- Benjamin Franklin on John Adams

-I do now know Jefferson] to be one of the most artful, intriguing, industrious and double-faced politicians in all America.--- John Nicholas to George Washington

-I shall really regret to leave Mr. Jefferson, he is one of the choice ones of...