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 like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man...
We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.