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
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.
[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights