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
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property.
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.
It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Dependence leads to subservience.