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
Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.
Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you....
Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.
Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone
May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.