Excerpts from speeches at dedicatory and unveiling ceremonies or comments made during personal visits to the Memorial.  
President Calvin Coolidge (Consecration Ceremony, August 10, 1927)
 
“We have come here to dedicate a corner stone that was laid by the hand of the Almighty.... This memorial will be another national shrine to which future generations will repair to declare their continuing allegiance to independence, to self government, to freedom and to economic justice....”
 
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Jefferson Unveiling)
 
“An inspiration for the continuance of the democr............