In the name of justice and honor, how long are we to tolerate this scum of party filth and beggarly corruption, worked into a form somewhat like a man, to go thus with impunity [without punishment]?
–Gazette of the United States, describing James Callender

I do now know him to be one of the most artful, intriguing, industrious and double-faced politicians in all of America.
–John Nichols, on Thomas Jefferson

Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest, will openly be taught and practiced. . . . The air will be rent with the cries of distress, the soil soaked with blood, . . . and the nation black with crimes.
–Connecticut Courant, on Thomas Jefferson

He that is not for us, is against us
–Motto of the Gazette of the United States 

Shall I continue in allegiance to GOD—AND A RELIGIOUS PRESIDENT; Or impiously declare for JEFFERSON—AND NO GOD!!!
–National Gazette, describing John Adams and Jefferson

He is nothing but a mean spirited, low lived fellow. . . .
–Federalist source on Jefferson