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
Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.
Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance...
Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
Health is the requisite after morality
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.
Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.
The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.