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
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.
[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.
I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.
I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.