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
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.
The only purpose of government is to protect the people.
We rarely repent of having eaten too little.
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
My creed had been formed on unsheathing the sword at Lexington
It is unfortunate for our peace, that unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
(Academics) commit their pupils to the theatre of the world, with just taste enough of learning to be alienated from industrial pursuits, and not enough to do service in the ranks of science
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine
I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.