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
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.