Edgar Lee Masters in Examiner.com Fehrenbacher notes that poet Edgar Lee Masters wrote in the 1920s that Lincoln was a "cold-hearted, under-sexed, intellectually lazy ...... sophistical, unscrupulous, demagogic politician."
Thomas Jefferson in OpEdNews As Jefferson wrote in 1817 to Dr. John Manners, "The evidence of this natural right, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but...