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
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect and noble.
History, by apprising (men) of the past, will enable them to judge of the future, it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations
We must do our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies
He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me
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.
Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.