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 believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.