Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jeffersonwas an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He was elected the second Vice President of the United States, serving under John Adams and in 1800 was elected the third President. Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, which motivated American colonists to break from Great Britain and form a new nation. He produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national level...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth13 April 1743
CityShadwell, VA
CountryUnited States of America
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.
I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.