He has completely abandoned that part of the traditional democratic creed which tends to regard the assumption by the government of responsibility, and its endowment with power adequate to the responsibility as inherently dangerous and undemocratic.

He realizes that any efficiency of organization and delegation of power which is necessary to the promotion of the American national interest must be helpful to democracy.

More than any other American political leader, except Lincoln, his devotion both to the national and to the democratic ideas is thorough-going and absolute.
As the founder of a new national democracy, then, his influence and his work have tended to emancipate American democracy from its Jeffersonian bondage.

They have tended to give a new meaning to popular government by endowing it with larger powers, more positive responsibilities, and a better faith in human excellence.

Jefferson believed theoretically in human goodness, but in actual practice his faith in human nature was exceedingly restricted.