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
All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.
Never use two words when one will do.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.