Thomas Jefferson

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, the third President of the United States and author of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a>, wrote: "Bacon, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke" title="John Locke">Locke</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton" title="Isaac Newton">Newton</a>. I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundation of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical and Moral sciences".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atlantis#cite_note-15">[15]</a> Historian and biographer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hepworth_Dixon" title="William Hepworth Dixon">William Hepworth Dixon</a> considered that Bacon's name could be included in the list of Founders of the United States of America.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atlantis#cite_note-16">[16]</a>