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
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Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.
Resisting tyranny is obeying God
I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.
The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.
An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.
If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.
I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.